charge quotes

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to a greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

-W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois
  Written 26  Jun, and read as an oration at his funeral.

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it†an additional tactic in this strategy of defense†is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  Economics and the Art of Controversy.

She even sighed offensively†as if she meant to charge me with the necessity of doing so.

-William Alexander Gerhardie
  Futility, pt.3, ch.3.

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

- Charles Kemble
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

-JosephWood Krutch
  The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

I am accused of kissing women†perhaps overeagerly kissing women. And that isthe charge, not drugging, not robbing, kissing!

- Kerry Packer
  Replying to charges of sexual misconduct, lobbying, and editing diaries subpoenaed by the Senate Ethics Committee. In the NewYorkTimes,7 Sep.

No blazoned banner we unfold One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold, The golden heresy of truth.

- GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó Russell
'On Behalf of Some Irishmen not Followers ofTradition'.