{"id":349,"date":"2005-06-28T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/06\/28\/best-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:22:15","slug":"best-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/06\/28\/best-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Quote of the Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n

”You will hear people more foolish than wicked say
\n ‘Our country, right or wrong,’ but that is a false patriotism and bad
\n Americanism. When our country is wrong she is worse than other countries
\n when they are wrong, for she has more light than other countries, and
\n we somehow ought to make her feel that we are sorry and ashamed for her."<\/p>\n

American literary lion William Dean Howells<\/a>,
\n in 1912<\/em><\/p>\n

******<\/p>\n

”They’ve never been treated better and they’ve never
\n been more comfortable in their lives."<\/p>\n

Duncan
\n Hunter<\/a>, Republican
\n of California, to a group of journalists two weeks ago, offering
\n as a prop a plate of oven-fried chicken, one
\n of the entrees served to inmates at Guantanamo.<\/em><\/p>\n

******<\/p>\n

”You self-medicate, and you try not to get sick. Somebody’s
\n got some old medicine hanging around? Give it to me! That’s how you do
\n it."<\/p>\n

Kathryn
\n Cunningham,<\/a> unemployed case manager<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Dowbrigade votes for Kathryn.  She’s got
\n it right, and in the right order….<\/em><\/p>\n

all quotes from the Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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