Jesse Helms/early Career 1940-1972

Famous quotes containing the words jesse, helms, early and/or career:

    They can kill us, but they can’t eat us. That’s against the law!
    Gil Doud, U.S. screenwriter, and Jesse Hibbs. Brandon (Charles Drake)

    Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He’d better have a bodyguard.
    —Jesse Helms (b. 1921)

    In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    John Brown’s career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of nothing so miraculous in our history.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)