fifth quotes

Kangaroo, Kangaroo! Thou Spirit of Australia, That redeems from utter failure, From perfect desolation, And warrants the creation Of this fifth part of the Earth.

- Barron Field
  First Fruits of  Australian Poetry,'The Kangaroo'.

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

- Robert F(rancis) Kennedy
  In the Observer, May.

La quinta columna. The fifth column.

- Emilio Mola
  Speech, Oct. Of the rebel sympathizers within Madrid who would help the four columns of nationalist rebels besieging it. Quoted in Hugh Thomas TheSpanish Civil War (1961), ch.4, p.317.

I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall†plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up, or anything else. If that will save it, save the plan.

- Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
  From the White House tapes relating to the Watergate scandal, recorded Mar.