March Quotes - Page 3

• Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Hands, Sovereign

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• We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

  Chris Matthews

  Islamic, Iraq, Cards

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• Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

  Paul Bert

  Religion, Morality, Modern

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• Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Anniversary, Umpires, Today

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• I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Done, May, Great Success

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press

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• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Vic Snyder

  School, Opportunity, Rocks

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• If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

  Lewis Tappan

  People, Wicked, Wish

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• Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

  Rube Goldberg

  Lucky, Lasts, Serious

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• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

  James Longstreet

  Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Long

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• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Race, Law, Civilization

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• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  Alexis Herman

  Children, Fundamentals, Child Labor

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• I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

  Barbara Boxer

  March On Washington, Social, Security

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  David Ogilvy

  Might, Advertising, Stealing

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• For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

  Michael Musto

  Integrity, Style, Fabulous

  "An Interview With The Marvelous Michael Musto". Brodway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

  Herman Melville

  Mind, May, Conquest

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1009, Delphi Classics

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• Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

  Alexander Herzen

  Two, House, Done

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• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Life, Believe, Dying

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• Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

  George Washington

  Country, Gentleman, Patriotism

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  J Allard

  Running, Real, Worry

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• I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

  Andre Braugher

  Kings, Children, March On Washington

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

  Jim Gerlach

  Suicide, Israel, Facts

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• Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona

  Rick Renzi

  Order, Fire, Waiting

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• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Past, Two

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