Bernard De Voto - People Quotes

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And, I suppose, nothing can be done with people who put olives in martinis, presumably because in some desolate childhood hour someone refused them a dill pickle and so they go through life lusting for the taste of brine. Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

Bernard De Voto

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

Bernard De Voto

We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great inheritance. Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which by far the worst is rum.

Bernard De Voto

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

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Don't have much to do with people who drink sherry at any time except with soup; there's something wrong with them.

Bernard De Voto