Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston/home Secretary - 1852-1855

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    After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
    William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.
    Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)