Alexander Pope Quotes
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Pope, Alexander. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. R. Dodsley, 1738, p. 14.
FDR was hated by conservatives to a degree that no President in modern history was or would be until Bill Clinton served in that role. Both men were amazingly successful with their programs and administration of the government.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
The Senator was an Army sergeant fighting in Europe during WWII. He and a unit of Japanese American had volunteered to fight for America at the same time as many other Japanese Americans – American Citizens -- on the West Coast were interned in camps and denied the very rights we were fighting to preserve. The internment was one of the most regrettable mistakes in American history.
Alexander Pope is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having become popular in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.
