Famous quotes containing the words national, defense and/or key:
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Londonhe arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswellturned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)
“Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lyingAnd the
immaculate white bed”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)