1928

Explore 43 quotes from the year 1928

They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Louis Brandeis

Olmstead v. United States

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Right to privacy Fourth Amendment Bill of Rights Constitutional law

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Olmstead v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 471-485. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

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Topic

Man and animals Probability Randomness

Author

Arthur Eddington

Source

The Nature of the Physical World

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

We were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American System of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines-doctrines of paternalism and static socialism.

Herbert Hoover

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America and Europe

Speaker

Herbert Hoover

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. Campaign speech about the principles and ideals of the United States Government. 22 Oct. 1928, New York City, NY, USA.

The government ought not to use evidence obtained and only obtainable, by a criminal act...for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals could escape than that, the Government should play an ignoble part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Olmstead v. United States

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Fourth Amendment Constitutional law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Olmstead v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 438-485. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Inevitability of death Death

Author

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source

Dirge Without Music

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Dirge Without Music." The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1928, st. 1.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body and life everlasting.

The Book of Common Prayer

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Topic

Belief in God

Source

The Book of Common Prayer

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Profession of faith

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

The Book of Common Prayer

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Marriage

Source

Solemnization of Matrimony The Book of Common Prayer

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood Broun

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Topic

Innovation New ideas Timing Progress

Author

Heywood Broun

Source

New York World

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Broun, Heywood. New York World, 6 Feb. 1928.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

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Snow

Author

J.B. Priestley

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Priestley, J. B. "First Snow." Apes and Angels. Methuen, 1928.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space.

Arthur S. Eddington

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Topic

Nature of time

Author

Arthur S. Eddington

Source

The Nature of the Physical World

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

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Topic

Rationalism Reason

Speaker

Alfred North Whitehead

Source

Process and Reality

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology." Gifford Lecture. 1927–1928, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Current Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality. Simon and Schuster, 2010, pt. 1, ch. 1, sec. 3.

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf

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Topic

Gender roles Gender

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

Orlando

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Excuses

Speaker

Walter Bidlake

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Point Counter Point

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto & Windus/Doubleday Doran, 1928, ch. 1.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

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Hell Cruelty

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

On the Value of Skepticism Sceptical Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

Food comes first, then morals.

Bertolt Brecht

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Topic

Moral relativism Moral principles Morality

Speaker

Macheath

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Source

The Threepenny Opera

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. Die Dreigroschenoper [The Threepenny Opera]. 31 Aug. 1928, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany, act 2, sc. 6.

Current Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Grove Press, 1994, act 2, sc. 6.

As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

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Topic

Effects of travel

Author

Margaret Mead

Source

Coming of Age in Samoa

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.

Current Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled over night, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.

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Topic

Stare decisis Constitutional theory

Speaker

Benjamin Cardozo

Source

The Paradoxes of Legal Science

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. "Stability and Progress." The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, 1928.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

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Topic

Vulnerability Inner life

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

The House at Pooh Corner

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen, 1928, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2018, ch. 6.

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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Herbert Hoover

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. Letter to Senator W. H. Borah. 23 Feb. 1928.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

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Topic

Sound of water Rain Wind Waves Nature

Author

Henry Beston

Source

The Outermost House

Genre

Nature writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 3.