In the wake of the terrorist attack, I picked out a few quotations I found interesting, annoying, and intriguing from The International Thesaurus of Quotations.--RL In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country." -- Dick Gregory (1964). Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, and establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer. --Stanley Rudin (1963). I sometimes think the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities--a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933). Never have people been more the masters of their emnvironment. Yet never have a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer. --Daniel Boorstein (1962). Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on 24-hour call to any spot on the globe wherever dispute and conflict may erupt. -- Eldridge Cleaver (1968) If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835) The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. -- Emerson (1842). I look forward to a great future for America--a future in which our country will match our military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, and its power with our purpose. -- John F. Kennedy (1963). Back to 3rd Quarter 2001 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com