Friday, June 25, 2010

Quote No. CXVII

"When you need to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

-Tuco Ramirez
(The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Quote #116: on persuasion




"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see"

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer.

St. Augustine (by Sandro Botticelli)

St. Ignatius Loyola (by Francisco Zurbaran)

Benjamin Rush (by Charles Willson Peale)

Patrick Henry at the Virginia House of Burgesses (by Henry Rothermel)

Edmund Burke (by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Samuel Adams (by John Singleton Copley)

Alexander Hamilton (by John Trumbull)