Famine Quotes (2)
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
Rats, Lice and History (1934), 13-4.
See also: | Bacteria (12) | Civilization (42) | Defense (2) | Flea (3) | Infection (11) | Neglect (3) | Poverty (8) | Protozoa (2) | Shadow (5) | Tick (2) | Virus (7) | War (51)
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
Speech (16 Dec 1867) given while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, introducing resolution for the appointment of a committee to examine the necessities for legislation upon the subject of the ninth census to be taken the following year. Quoted in John Clark Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield (1881), 216.
See also: | Crime (3) | Death (91) | Disease (115) | Ignorance (62) | Pestilence (3) | Statistics (49)
