“I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.” MenSelfFormLawSufferingMy OwnForeverSacrificeFairsVoteFellowsQuittingOppressionSelf RespectSeventiesFoulPublic LifeInfliction Author:Joseph Gurney Cannon
“I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.” PeopleMenShouldMy OwnFellowsFickleVindictiveTouchy Book:Plutarch's Morals Source: Plutarch's Morals
“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.” CountryDifficultHoursMy OwnKnowingHappenedRegretCitizensDiedFellowsEightNot KnowingPeruSept 11Difficult Days Author:Colin Powell
“Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.” SoulGivenMy OwnTheoryCreaturesFellowsImmortalityBoonAbhorrent Book:Records of Later Life Source: Records of Later Life
“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.” NeedsMayMeanMy OwnFellowsTestimonyAssurance Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” AgeAmericaFatherMy OwnSpecialFellowsJournalistFranklinSpecial RelationshipFranklin Delano Roosevelt Author:Lionel Barber
“The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.” TryingMy OwnGoes OnFellowsYankeesBabeNew York Yankees Author:Lou Gehrig