They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

Книга They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading... They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions Книги Иностранные языки Автор: Paul F. Boller, John George Год издания: 1990 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press, USA Страниц: 192 Размер: 7,3 Mb ISBN: 0195064690 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds ofmisquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with thesalutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distortthe views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even inventedthe words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations. Contents 16 Adams, John 30 No religion 30 Addison, Joseph 30 Hesitates-lost 30 Allen, Ethan 31 In the name of Jehovah 31 Armstrong, Neil 31 Small step 31 Beria, Lavrenti 32 Psychopolitics 32 Teen-agers 33 Bible 34 Cleanliness 34 Fools rush in 34 God helps 34 Pride 35 Safety in numbers 35 Spare the rod 35 The wind 35 Bogart, Humphrey 35 Play it again 35 Tennis 36 Boyer, Charles 36 Casbah 36 Brezhnev, Leonid 36 Treasure houses of West 36 Burke, Edmund 37 Indict a whole people 37 Triumph of evil 37 Butler, Samuel 38 Man convinced against his will 38 Cagney, James 38 Rat 38 Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne 38 Guard 38 Carlyle, Thomas 39 Genius 39 Cervantes, Miguel de 39 Streets of by-and-by 39 Churchill, Winston 40 Blood, sweat, and tears 40 Tax into prosperity 40 Cicero, Marcus Tullius 41 Budget balancing 41 Cohen, Israel 41 Racial tension 41 Colson, Charles 43 Grandmother 43 Communist Party Directive 44 Label them fascists 44 Congreve, William 45 Music 45 Coolidge, Calvin 45 Hired the money 45 Darwin, Charles 46 Wish I hadn't 46 Devereux, James P. S. 47 Send more Japs 47 Dimitrov, Georgi 47 Soviet power 47 Disraeli, Benjamin 48 Divide the United States for the Rothschilds 48 Jews want to destroy Christendom 49 Donaldson, Sam 50 Hold on 50 Durocher, Leo 50 Nice guys 50 Edison, Thomas Alva 50 Doctor of future 50 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 51 Birch Society 51 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 52 Consistency 52 Mousetrap 52 Fields, W. C. 52 Children and dogs 52 Philadelphia 53 Francis I 53 All is lost 53 Franklin, Benjamin 53 Exclude Jews 53 Insidious Catholics 55 Tiger 55 Frietchie, Barbara 55 Shoot if you must 55 Gaither, Rowan 56 Overall aim of Ford Foundation 56 Galileo 57 Does move 57 Garbo, Greta 57 Go home 57 Garfield, James A. 58 Cheap labor 58 Government still lives 59 Gaulle, Charles de 60 Inevitable communism 60 Joan of Arc 60 Gibbon, Edward 61 Religions equally true and false 61 Gipp, George 62 Win one 62 Goering, Hermann 63 Reach for revolver 63 Goldwater, Barry M. 63 Fraternities 63 Goldwyn, Sam 64 Blanket check 64 Blood and thirsty 64 Brink of abscess 65 Bull by teeth 65 Caustic 65 Comedies not to be laughed at 65 Duck 66 Flashlight 66 Hair stand on edge of seat 66 Im-possible 67 Include me out 67 Indians 67 Make them Americans 67 Mucus 68 Next time I send a fool 68 Read part of it 69 Psychiatrist 69 S.O.B. 69 Verbal contract 69 Gordon, Sol 70 Anti-marriage 70 Greeley, Horace 70 Go west 70 Hall, Gus 71 Strangled to death 71 Hecht, Ben 71 Executing Christ 71 Hitler, Adolf 72 Law and order 72 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 73 Keep government poor 73 Holmes, Sherlock 74 Elementary, Watson 74 Hoover, Herbert 74 Noble experiment 74 Prosperity around the corner 75 Hopkins, Harry 75 Damn dumb 75 Tax, spend, elect 76 Howard, Roy 78 Too much checking facts 78 Humanist Manifesto II 78 Unbridled sexuality 78 Ickes, Harold 79 Modified communism 79 Ingersoll, Robert G. 79 Humblest peasant 79 Jackson, Andrew 80 Let him enforce it 80 One man with courage 80 Victors, spoils 81 Japanese Government Memo 82 Competing for Japanese investments 82 Jefferson, Thomas 83 Best government 83 Eternal vigilance 83 Jones, John Paul 84 Not yet begun to fight 84 Kant, Immanuel 84 Copernican revolution 84 Kautsky, Karl 85 Socialist work 85 Khrushchev, Nikita 86 Doses of socialism 86 Gullible 86 Too liberal to fight 87 Treaties with imperialists 87 Kissinger, Henry 88 Day of United States past 88 Knights of Columbus 89 Bogus oath 89 Lawrence, James 90 Don't give up ship 90 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyitch 90 All slave 90 Best way to destroy capitalism 91 Capitalists sell rope 91 Capitalist trade finances destruction 91 Caress masses 92 Corrupt young people 92 Could not have come to power 93 Fertile field 93 Firearms registration 93 Five enemies 94 Freedom of speech 94 Give me a child 95 Immutable aim 95 Inconceivable 96 Invective, slander, smear 97 Overripe fruit 97 Pie crust 99 Road to Paris 99 Socialized medicine 100 Spend itself to destruction 101 Teachers, professors, ministers 102 Three-fourths perish 102 Turn world upside down 103 Useful idiots 103 Win Western world 104 Lincoln, Abraham 104 All that loves labor 104 Ancient sea 105 Anti-Catholic 106 Anti-Prohibition 107 Anti-slavery 108 Baseball 108 Boots and Bible 109 Bound to be true 109 Cannot 109 Common people 111 Congenital aversion 111 Corporations enthroned 112 Danger from within 112 Divine Son of Mary 113 Equality of both races 114 Fool all of the people 115 Grandson 116 High tariff 116 Know there's a God 117 Love Jesus 118 Play a solo 118 Popular sovereignty 119 Proud of city 119 Teach economy 119 Unsoundness of the Christian scheme 120 Warts 120 Wriggle for office 121 Long, Huey 121 Americanism 121 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt 122 Bridegroom 122 Coolidge 122 Louis XIV 122 The State is me 122 Maguire, William A. 123 Praise the Lord 123 Mankiewicz, Herman 123 Grace of God 123 Manuilsky, Dimitri 124 War to the hilt 124 Marie Antoinette 124 Eat cake 124 Marx, Groucho 125 Truman 125 Mather, Cotton 125 Malignants called Quakers 125 Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte] 126 Jesus not a man 126 Shopkeepers 127 Nash, Ogden 127 Catsup bottle 127 Newton, Sir Isaac 127 Shoulders of giants 127 Nixon, Richard M. 128 Great wall 128 O'Hair, Madalyn Murray 128 Stop religious broadcasting 128 Otis, James 129 Taxation 129 Paine, Thomas 130 Five Bibles 130 Pepys, Samuel 130 Marines 130 Pershing, John J. 131 Lafayette 131 Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe 131 Shall not pass 131 Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth 132 Anti-Semitic 132 Millions for defense 132 Prescott, William 133 Whites of eyes 133 The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion 133 Sheep and wolves 133 Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel 134 No more religions 134 Reveal our identity 134 Reagan, Ronald 135 Man-horse 135 Summit meeting 135 Reed, John 137 The future works 137 Reuther, Walter 138 Soviet America 138 Rogers, Will 139 Never met man 139 Weather 139 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 140 Immigrants 140 Nothing wrong with Communism 140 Rules for Revolution 141 Rules for revolution 141 Scholz, Jackson 143 Old Book 143 Sévigné, Marquise de 143 Hero to valet 143 Shaw, George Bernard 144 Deaf, dumb, blind 144 Only interested in money 144 Sheridan, Philip 145 Good Indian 145 Sherman, William Tecumseh 145 Hold the fort 145 War is hell 146 Stalin, Josef 146 Aid to backward countries 146 Breaking eggs 147 Ripe fruit 147 Words and actions 147 Sutton, Willie 148 Rob banks 148 Taft, Robert A. 148 The U.N. 148 Talmud 149 Cheat a goy 149 Tocqueville, Alexis de 149 Not a single bureaucrat 149 Twain, Mark 150 Lillian Russell 150 Smoking 150 Three kinds of lies 150 Wagner 151 Weather 151 Voltaire [Jean François Arouet] 151 Defend to the death 151 Washington, George 153 Anti-Jewish 153 Bible 153 Can't tell a lie 154 Deficit spending 155 Die hard 155 Lord God of gods 155 Not a Christian country 156 Wellington, 1st Duke of 157 At 'em 157 Playing fields of Eton 157 Wilson, Charles 158 General Motors 158 Wilson, Woodrow 158 Beauty limerick 158 Wise, Stephen 159 Communism is Judaism 159 Woollcott, Alexander 159 Wet clothes 159 Zhou En-lai 160 Opium for Americans 160 Zinoviev, Grigori 160 Red flag over White House 160 Notes 164 Index 180 A 180 B 180 C 181 D 181 E 182 F 182 G 182 H 182 I 183 J 183 K 183 L 183 M 183 N 184 O 184 P 184 Q 185 R 185 S 185 T 186 V 186 W 186 Y 186 Z 186 Contents......Page 16 Hesitates-lost......Page 30 Small step......Page 31 Psychopolitics......Page 32 Teen-agers......Page 33 God helps......Page 34 Play it again......Page 35 Treasure houses of West......Page 36 Triumph of evil......Page 37 Guard......Page 38 Streets of by-and-by......Page 39 Tax into prosperity......Page 40 Racial tension......Page 41 Grandmother......Page 43 Label them fascists......Page 44 Hired the money......Page 45 Wish I hadn't......Page 46 Soviet power......Page 47 Divide the United States for the Rothschilds......Page 48 Jews want to destroy Christendom......Page 49 Doctor of future......Page 50 Birch Society......Page 51 Children and dogs......Page 52 Exclude Jews......Page 53 Shoot if you must......Page 55 Overall aim of Ford Foundation......Page 56 Go home......Page 57 Cheap labor......Page 58 Government still lives......Page 59 Joan of Arc......Page 60 Religions equally true and false......Page 61 Win one......Page 62 Fraternities......Page 63 Blood and thirsty......Page 64 Comedies not to be laughed at......Page 65 Hair stand on edge of seat......Page 66 Make them Americans......Page 67 Next time I send a fool......Page 68 Verbal contract......Page 69 Go west......Page 70 Executing Christ......Page 71 Law and order......Page 72 Keep government poor......Page 73 Noble experiment......Page 74 Damn dumb......Page 75 Tax, spend, elect......Page 76 Unbridled sexuality......Page 78 Humblest peasant......Page 79 One man with courage......Page 80 Victors, spoils......Page 81 Competing for Japanese investments......Page 82 Eternal vigilance......Page 83 Copernican revolution......Page 84 Socialist work......Page 85 Gullible......Page 86 Treaties with imperialists......Page 87 Day of United States past......Page 88 Bogus oath......Page 89 All slave......Page 90 Capitalist trade finances destruction......Page 91 Corrupt young people......Page 92 Firearms registration......Page 93 Freedom of speech......Page 94 Immutable aim......Page 95 Inconceivable......Page 96 Overripe fruit......Page 97 Road to Paris......Page 99 Socialized medicine......Page 100 Spend itself to destruction......Page 101 Three-fourths perish......Page 102 Useful idiots......Page 103 All that loves labor......Page 104 Ancient sea......Page 105 Anti-Catholic......Page 106 Anti-Prohibition......Page 107 Baseball......Page 108 Cannot......Page 109 Congenital aversion......Page 111 Danger from within......Page 112 Divine Son of Mary......Page 113 Equality of both races......Page 114 Fool all of the people......Page 115 High tariff......Page 116 Know there's a God......Page 117 Play a solo......Page 118 Teach economy......Page 119 Warts......Page 120 Americanism......Page 121 The State is me......Page 122 Grace of God......Page 123 Eat cake......Page 124 Malignants called Quakers......Page 125 Jesus not a man......Page 126 Shoulders of giants......Page 127 Stop religious broadcasting......Page 128 Taxation......Page 129 Marines......Page 130 Shall not pass......Page 131 Millions for defense......Page 132 Sheep and wolves......Page 133 Reveal our identity......Page 134 Summit meeting......Page 135 The future works......Page 137 Soviet America......Page 138 Weather......Page 139 Nothing wrong with Communism......Page 140 Rules for revolution......Page 141 Hero to valet......Page 143 Only interested in money......Page 144 Hold the fort......Page 145 Aid to backward countries......Page 146 Words and actions......Page 147 The U.N.......Page 148 Not a single bureaucrat......Page 149 Three kinds of lies......Page 150 Defend to the death......Page 151 Bible......Page 153 Can't tell a lie......Page 154 Lord God of gods......Page 155 Not a Christian country......Page 156 Playing fields of Eton......Page 157 Beauty limerick......Page 158 Wet clothes......Page 159 Red flag over White House......Page 160 Notes......Page 164 B......Page 180 D......Page 181 H......Page 182 M......Page 183 P......Page 184 S......Page 185 Z......Page 186

abraham Lincoln Never Said, You Cannot Fool All The People All The Time. Thomas Jefferson Never Said, That Government Is Best Which Governs Least. And Horace Greeley Never Said, Go West, Young Man. In they Never Said It, Paul Boller, Jr., And John George Examine Hundreds Of Misquotations, Incorrect Attributions, And Blatant Fabrications, Outlining The Origins Of The Quotes And Revealing Why They Should Be Consigned To The Historical Trashcan.
Many Of The Misquotes Are Quite Harmless. Some Are Inadvertent Misquotes That Have Become Popular (shakespeare Actually Said, The Best Part Of Valor Is Discretion), Others, The Inventions Of Reporters Embellishing A Story (franklin Roosevelt Never Opened A Speech To A Dar Group With The Salutation, My Fellow Immigrants). But Some Of The Quotes, Such As Charles Darwin's Supposed Deathbed Recantation Of Evolution, Are Blatantly Dishonest And Falsify The Historical Record. And Others Are Chillingly Vicious, Filled With Virulent Racial And Religious Prejudices That Completely Distort The Views Of The Person Supposedly Quoted And Spread Distrust And Hatred Among The Gullible. These Include The Forged Remarks Attributed To Benjamin Franklin That Jews Should Be Excluded From America, And The Fabricated Condemnation Of Catholics Attributed To Lincoln.
An Entertaining And Yet Thought-provoking Book, they Never Said It Sorts Out A Great Deal Of History And Sets It Right, Going Beyond A Mere Catalog Of Popular Misconceptions To Reveal How Conservatives And Liberals, Atheists And Evangelists, All Have At Times Twisted And Even Invented The Words Of Eminent Figures To Promote Their Own Ends. It Is The Ultimate Debunking Reference, A Perfect Complement To Handbooks Of Quotations.

Abraham Lincoln never said,'You cannot fool all the people all the time.'Thomas Jefferson never said,'That government is best which governs least.'And Horace Greeley never said,'Go west, young man.'In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said,'The best part of valor is discretion'), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the salutation,'My fellow immigrants'). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distort the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even invented the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations. Abraham Lincoln never said, "You can fool all the people all the time." Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." This valuable debunking reference examines hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and out-and-out fabrications (ranging from harmless to blatantly malicious), outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why they should be consigned to the historical trash can.