Root Beer Float

Famous quotes containing the words root, beer and/or float:

    “The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated time and again its lack of confidence in the people.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.”
    —P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)