Elliott Smith Quotes
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
Nugent, Benjamin. Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing. Da Capo Press, 2004.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson and Otis Singletary for related views
Opposition to the Bolsheviks
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} for a similar view and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. Otis Singletary for a contemporary one {585931} The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
Tens of thousands of Government opponents and independent thinkers of all kinds were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Argentina’s Dirty War conducted by the military junta which Videla headed. See {41586}. After democracy was returned to Argentina, he was tried and convicted for murder and other government atrocities committed during his administration. See {41542}.
This appears to be the first English use of the “man in the street” expression that Ralph Waldo Emerson made more famous in his 1866 phrase: “The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.” Politicians have been using it ever since.
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
This appears to be the first time that this phrase has been used.
This quotation may be apocryphal and not real. We have not been able to find an eyewitness or even a quotation the citation of which gave a date or suggested how the quote was ever made public given that it passed between these two men. However it is so frequently quoted that we have decided to include it. A further argument in its favor is that it fits the circumstances of the time. FDR had given Hopkins a huge budget and told Hopkins to get the American people working again. Hopkins did not believe in payments to the able bodied unless worked and his programs created an astounding array of jobs for the unemployed to do ranging from fixing benches in parks to writing poetry about poverty. He spend more money than any human being in history and started and implemented a nationwide program at a pace that has never been matched, Incredibly, no one was ever able to find any dishonesty in the administration, but it took years for the information of exactly what had going on at the local level to filter back to Washington. So the quote is plausible factually. Style-wise Hopkins was brutally honest with Roosevelt and others so well might have admitted that he did not know all that was going on in his programs. See {642829}.
Steven Paul Smith, known professionally as Elliott Smith, was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and often used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
