"there are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil"

Prior to the civil war.

Robert E. Lee?

Right

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

Who said it?

I'll answer that question with a question.

Who's Birthday is being celebrated today?

You are indeed the winner DT!!!

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Head of IBM, but that was before he found out that you could do all sorts of things with a computer, like play solitare, tetris, look at pictures of naked women etc.

Correct. (1943). How about this one:

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

> "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

OK, I will admit that I cheated on this one: This quote is the justification that Decca records gave for rejecting the Beatles in 1962.

Who said:

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."

Theodore H. "Teddy" Roosevelt Jr. (b.1858 d.1919) in 1906, 26th President of the United States 1901-1909, Republican, veteran of the Spanish-American War who established the National Parks system, explored the Amazon Basin, and was the uncle of (then) future first-lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Now it's my turn--who said:
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Eddie Van Halen?

Nope............

Here's a hint:

A great Greek "thinker".

Playdough?

Well, google says Plato.

Didn't he write "On Politics?"

Fun thread, BTW!

Ding Ding Ding!

Here's another one--who said
"How little is needed for happiness. The note of a bagpipe.-- Without music life would be a mistake."
(TLd. by R.L. Hollingdale)

I cheated and Googled it, so I won't post the answer.

Interesting author.

Edit: That's what I get for watching TV after reading the post! Too late again!

I edit added that other quote in apparently after you posted yours....I assume you were referring to the Plato bit above.

(But the other author I quote is rather interesting as well ;o)

Gandhi? (Pretty sure this one isn't Eddie VH...)

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

-and-

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Nope...

Hint:
The philosopher who created "Superman".

Edit Add~
Missing:
1st) Albert Einstein
2nd) Ralph Waldo Emerson

And no, I didn't look the answers up on Google. ;o)

Here's a quote:

"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

Who said it and when?

Andrew

Nixon, ironically, at his last press conference.

Yeah, he said at the time that it would be his "last press conference" but it was in 1962, after he had his ass handed to him in the California governor's race by Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown. Supposedly, Nixon had been up all night after losing the election and was still half drunk.

Andrew

He also said it when he turned tail and ran in DISGRACE before the House and Senate could IMPEACH him.
Yellow he was.....

What famous comic book/TV character said,

"What color underwear am I wearing?"

Lois Lane?

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"