Great Quotes From American History, Marion Barry Edition

Apropos of John Derbyshire’s post about the forthcoming statue of Marion Shepilov Barry, I recall the joke pinned to the bulletin board of a very large and prominent media organization in Washington, D.C., after the FBI filmed the leftist crook smoking crack with a prostitute.

It went something like this:

Great Quotes From American History:

• “I cannot tell a lie” — George Washington
• “Give me liberty or give me death” — Patrick Henry
• “I have not yet begun to fight” — John Paul Jones
• “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country” — Nathan Hale
• “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” — David Farragut
• “A house divided against itself cannot stand” — Abraham Lincoln
• “Walk soft and carry a big stick” — Theodore Roosevelt
• “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” — Franklin Roosevelt
• “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” — John F. Kennedy
• “The bitch set me up” — Marion Barry