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Der Film The Kid hat gar keinen richtigen Inhalt. Aber Chaplins Herz hat einen, und zu diesem Herzen gehört der feinste Kopf unter den lebenden Filmdarstellern und der klügste unter den Schauspielern überhaupt. Dieses Herz ist bei den Unterdrückten, und es hat eine gefährliche Waffe: sein Gehirn.

The problem was to find a method, if union was to subsist at all, for overcoming the difficulty, to find therefore some arrangement, some scheme or plan of organization wherein there would be reasonable assurance that the states would fulfill their obligations and play their part under established articles of union and not make mockery of union by willful disregard or negligent delay.

Bei den Heutigen ist es Faulheit, Phantasielosigkeit, Wichtigtuerei und Abwälzung der Verantwortung auf einen, der sich nicht mehr wehren kann. ‘Was gut ist, stammt natürlich von mir – den Rest mußte ich übernehmen.’

Zu Würzburg am Stein,
Zu Klingenberg am Main,
Zu Bacharach am Rhein,
Da wächst der beste Wein.

Wie war es denn? Er [Fontane] lebte dahin, wohl wissend, daß alles gedrückt and klein war um ihn, und daß er niemals Geld machen wurde, und daß Amerika auch ein Land sei, aber Gott sei Dank – ein fernes.

'I've had chicken dinners with more brains 'n what you got.'

'You liked it?'

'Yes...tell it again,'

'No...it's like a political speech...gaudy in its way, but filled with 18 karats of nothing.'

Die Provence ist keine französische Provinz wie die anderen. Der Boden scheint nicht aus Erde gefügt; es wunderte einen nicht, wenn er plötzlich zu atmen anhübe wie ein unendlicher Leib. Der Land blüht einem entgegen, willig und weich steckt es sich gegen den Himmel.

He tole me we ain't got a free press in this country...'why, them papers costs up to a dime apiece...' He says, 'Call that free?'

'In my country,' he says, 'there's just one paper. Not a lot of opposin' views..A man knows what to think...' 'Yeh,' I says, 'But even so they charges money for it...'

'Now, what's all that hogwash about numbers? One and one is two...two and two is four...what're you up to? One an' one is eleven...two an' two is twenny-two...that's what we got schools for...what are you guys? Communists?'

'When we get up there we're gonna build a forty-two storey telescope...'

'What for?'

'We're gonna focus it on the earth and try to figure out what in Moses is goin' on down there.'

'Soon as you humans destroy all animal life on earth us insects take over --- Got my eye on a top job in the State Department.'

'I could cast a decidin' vote for me.'

'Hut tut -- It hasta be majority vote..your way would make it one apiece.'

'Everything bein' equal..yes! But I'm biggern you two -- I'm twice as equal.'

'Sorry -- I got the law on my side an' besides, I'm countin' the votes.'

'How kin he write the memoirs of our experience when we ain't had it yet?'

'Mebbe the time to remember a lot of stuff is before you starts."

But the Fram is more than a repository of artifacts and information…It is Norway’s monument to an ancient, enduring relationship with the sea and the ice and the metaphor of strength and perseverance in overcoming obstacles and hardships, always forward to freedom. It is the embodiment of a bygone era in polar exploration: grand in its broad call to nations and extraordinary people…

Sverdrup reluctantly gave up on the whole idea of proceeding north. He knew the reality of what he faced. He knew the risks and, Sverdrup being Sverdrup, intended to avoid them…Sverdrup would do what was necessary to keep them all alive. He would find other goals to pursue.

In Berlin leben die Leute gegeneinander, in Paris leben sie ineinander, in Kopenhagen leben sie miteinander.

The Fram was indeed a metaphorical vessel as well as an actual one, carrying souls on journeys not just in time and space but also internally, toward or away from exploration of their unknowns.

Archer knew full well...the Fram would roll, yaw, and wallow significantly in heavy, following seas and have a tough time making headway into the wind. He also knew that, though causing extra bouts of mal de mer for the crew, and becoming difficult to steer at times, it would be a most seaworthy vessel and would ride the waves safely no matter how ominous they got.

Sir Cecil Spring Rice sent Arthur Balfour a cogent explanation as to why Wilson would have to resort to a draft to get a million men into uniform. ‘It is not immediately evident to the American citizen of German descent resident in Omaha, Nebraska, that he should shed his German blood because an American negro from New Orleans has been drowned on a British ship, carrying munition to France.’

For all the Colonel’s charm, she found him unsentimental about her personal experience of growing up among the working poor…She saw that Roosevelt could not understand the difference between the kind of boredom he complained of on the campaign trail, and the spiritual despair of miners and factory workers who saw nothing ahead of them but brute labor and an unpaid old age.

‘There can be no higher international duty,’ he declared, ‘than to safeguard the existence and independence of industrious, orderly states, with a high personal and national standard of conduct, but without the military forces of the great powers.’ ...Belgium...had just been trampled underfoot—was still being trampled—while the United States, the world’s most righteous republic, raised no objection.

Books were classified as essential cargo. Roosevelt packed the last two volumes of his Gibbon, as well as works by Sophocles and Epictetus, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and Thomas More’s Utopia. Kermit chose Camões and some other Portuguese works; Rondon, Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ; Lyra, miniature editions of Goethe and Schiller in German.

Readers of The Wilderness Hunter and The Rough Riders were aware that the Colonel had a weakness for men who packed pistols, impregnated their wives regularly, and showed scant reverence for the law.

Word had gotten out that the Colonel favored the idea of a Negro delegate to second his nomination when the new party established itself. Veteran politicians recalled him attending his first GOP convention in 1884, and pushing for the election of a black chairman. One could not imagine Wilson, born in Virginia and bred in the South, carrying democracy quite that far.

…Roosevelt insisted that in arguing for less prosecution and more regulation, he was not advocating socialism. He merely wanted a government that was democratic, and an economy that was moral.

The New York Commercial described New Nationalism as 'more and worse than rank socialism—it is communism at the limit.' The Tribune noted that Roosevelt had traveled to Osawatomie by way of the state lunatic asylum.

He wrote accounts of his own voyages in admirable English, but his object was to get the story told, and, as we read, we think rather of the story than of the man…We think the story lacks interest, when the fact is that it lacks egotism.

Wunder sind eine Reklame. Wunder beweisen nichts für die Richtigkeit eines ethischen Systems.

…the British sea explorers of the Eighteenth Century attempted to aid rather than exploit the aboriginal peoples. Hence, when Cook sailed in July 1776...not even the American war was allowed to interfere with so important an expedition.