Rossiter Quotes

#1. If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Irwin Shaw

#2. Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms ... one man was the government of the United States ... Lincoln was a great dictator ... This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

Clinton Rossiter

#3. There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

Confucius

#4. Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." ~ Isaiah 38:1

Bible

#5. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

Joanna Rossiter

#6. I love you, Katherine James. I love you with everything I am. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me. Remember that.
Gabe Rossiter

Pamela Clare

#7. Got enough leg room there, Rossiter?" Marc asked.
"You bet. If not I'll just make use of the overhead bin.

Pamela Clare

#8. Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Clinton Rossiter

#9. No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Clinton Rossiter

#10. Your failings cannot be so great that you cannot overcome them with faith in our Lord; he forgave me mine, he will forgive you yours. You have but to desire it.

Roseanna M. White

#11. Rossiter wasn't really on leave. He'd had a catastrophic fall a few years back while saving his wife's life and had lost a leg. He

Pamela Clare

#12. In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

Clinton Rossiter

#13. There is no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality
and none of these great goods without stability and order.

Clinton Rossiter

#14. O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
O for an iceberg or two at control!
O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

Rossiter Johnson

#15. Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Rossiter W. Raymond

#16. How it pours, pours, pours,
In a never-ending sheet!
How it drives beneath the doors!
How it soaks the passer's feet!
How it rattles on the shutter!
How it rumples up the lawn!
How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
From darkness until dawn.

Rossiter Johnson

#17. The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

Clinton Rossiter

#18. Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Clinton Rossiter

#19. Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#20. I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

Priscilla Presley

#21. With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.

Rossiter Johnson

#22. Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Leonard Rossiter

#23. Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Leonard Rossiter

#24. Susan Boynton mug. "I will," Birdie said, smiling. "Haven't you already read this?" he asked,

Nan Rossiter

#25. No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Clinton Rossiter

#26. Individually, human beings are all dolts.

Orson Scott Card

#27. The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.

Thomas Hardy

#28. I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

Maurice Flanagan