Deal quotes

There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said,'Although pain isn't real, If I sit on a pin 22 And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel.'

-Anonymous
Collected in The Week-End Book (1925).

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

-William Cobbett
  On Deal, Kent. Rural Rides (published1830), entry for 3 Sep.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba even before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

- George S(tanley) McGovern
  Lecture at Oxford University, 21  Jan.

I stand for the square deal†not merely for fair play under thepresent rules of thegame, but for having those rules changed, so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunityand of reward for equally good service.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  Speech, Osawatomie, 31 Aug.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  Turmoil andTriumph.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.

- Harry S Truman
  Speech to Congress, 6 Sep.

You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, don't you.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Huck's Pap to Huck.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.5.

   A great deal has been lost and a great deal gained†may your message be heard†your lessons never be forgotten.

- George Corley Wallace
  Reversing the'segregation for ever'stance of1963. In news reports,11 Mar.