19th Century Liberalism Quotes

#1. I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

Walker Evans

#2. You too heavy a man for me to carry ... I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again ...

Edward P. Jones

#3. I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

John Guare

#4. And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Robert Klein

#5. I think we need to find somebody that can meet that standard.

Michael Enzi

#6. I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Winston Churchill

#7. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

Benito Mussolini

#10. It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Tracy Chevalier