Quote #7
The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.
More from Eugene McCarthy
- I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
- Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.
- We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
- The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.
- There is only one thing to do - take it to the country!
- 'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
- The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.