William Jennings Bryan/war and Peace - 1898-1900

Famous quotes containing the words jennings, bryan, war and/or peace:

    “Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. You’re sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you’re wrong, Christian! I’ll take this boat as she floats to England if I must. I’ll live to see you—all of you—hanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet.”
    —Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

    “I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “‘Yes; quaint and curious war is!
    You shoot a fellow down
    You’d treat if met where any bar is,
    Or help to half-a-crown.’”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)