campaign quotes

It is alarming and odious to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious MiddleTemple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace, while he is still conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King- Emperor.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, 23 Feb.

   We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted† It is about time that we pulled our fingers out† The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

-Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of
  Speech to British industrialists, London,17 Oct.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).

I face the prospect of another campaign like an open- ended stay in a concentration camp.

-Johnson, Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird
  A White House Diary.

I thought of my mother, who would publicly campaign for birth control but would never even think she needed to talk to me, so firmly was she convinced that sex was something no womanöno intelligent womanöwould ever submit to unless she had to.

-Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw
Lives of Girls and Women,'Baptizing'.

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