George Herbert Quotes
The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc. London, T. Maxey for T. Garthwait, 1651.
The Democrats used this quotation during the 1964 presidential campaign, in a famous TV ad with a little girl, a mushroom cloud and the announcer quoting Goldwater.
In large warfare at the time and in the American Civil War disease was responsible for more death than weapons. The logic is that with fewer troops necessary, there would be less disease. However, the reality was that machine guns never did reduce the number of soldiers—it only produced more lethal soldiers.
The huge Baltimore Flag was quickly commissioned from a local woman and her daughter and it was the one that was still flying, the morning after the British Bombardment of Ft. McHenry—the one referred to in the National Anthem.
In the closest call to murder in the Senate, Stuart Foote of Mississippi drew a pistol and aimed it at Benton in the heat of a debate:. Foote reconsidered and was overpowered on the Senate floor and was disarmed. There was no disciplinary action taken however. During slavery debates guns in the Congress were so common that Vice President Martin Van Buren once presided over the Senate for two weeks with a loaded pistol in each pocket.
George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He served in the Parliament of England in 1624 and briefly in 1625.
