#rot

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. ↗

— John B. Hood

#advance #after #against #assault #battle

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#i #just #lair #like #messes

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#become #cause #cited #could #doctrine

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#exactly #fantasy #his #mark #neurotic

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#i #integrity #objection #people #process

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

You don’t speak again, unless to use your safe word or yellow to indicate you’re frightened.” “I was at yellow the minute I walked in the door. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotic-romance #funny #romance #funny

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#copyright #create #draconian #holders #more

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#china #chinese #europe #europeans #i