9066 Executive Order Quotes

#1. February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

Xavier Becerra

#2. Sapiens adjuvabit opus astrorum quemadmodum agricola terrae naturam": A wise man assisteth the work of the stars as the husbandman helpeth the nature of the soil.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Anthony Edwards

#4. Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

Epictetus

#5. All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Pele

#6. The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Billy Corgan

#7. -How are you always so cheerful?-
-Alcohol. I wouldn't recommend it to others. But it seems to work for me.-

Pittacus Lore

#8. My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.

Nick Offerman

#9. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill