Famous quotes containing the words van, august, september, power and/or struggle:
“[W]ith them well beat little Van, Van, Van is a used up man.”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.”
—J. August Strindberg (18491912)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)