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"I wish I lived back in the Old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky." »Jim Bishop
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"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any indian." »Robert Orben
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"It looks as if it was put in by an indian. (looking at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a factory tour near Edinburgh)" »Prince Phillip
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"California: The west coast of Iowa." »Joan Didion
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"When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an indian said simply, Ours." »Father Andrew SDC
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"If you were a poor indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!" »Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the west, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"west is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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""Don't ask me for my resume -it's a piece of paper that won't help you or your business. Instead, ask me for unique ideas - and with that, I will give you plenty." ~ Jaxi west" »Jaxi West
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"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois indian." »Rachel Blanchard
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"I hear it said that west Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"An indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign." »Russell Smith
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"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth." »Chief Joseph
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"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the west and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan
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"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and west, the tie of love which blends human hearts." »Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
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"The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." »Samuel P. Huntington
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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the west was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies." »Alexander Pope
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the west today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"If I lived back in the Wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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