Samuel Johnson Quotes
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.
Johnson, Samuel. Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands. T. Cadell, 1771, p. 43.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Hearst was running for New York governor. A Wall Street emissary offered him a $100,000 campaign contribution if the candidate could assure him that his views were reasonable towards honest businesses:
[This has the sound, textural and physical structure of a wonderful quotation. However it does not comport with reality. The second clause does, but the first is contradicted by many who have made money honestly and then had a revelation of one type or another. And then of course there are so many of the thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
