We haven't had anything to eat all day ''.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we could find in the driveway.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

We of the liberal-led world got all set for peace and rehabilitation.

We are all, though many of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it, in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue, or even Shakespeare and Titian.

We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

In the rhyming catechism this doctrine is worded thus: `` In Adam's fall We sin-ned all ''.

We all love to suffer, but some of us love to suffer more than others.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''.

We bring back all dead and wounded ''.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

`` We all know that Jake Camaret and the woman are brazenly living together.

We are here because all our paths travel a blind course through a thick forest, seeking human dignity.

We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion ''.

We want to make sure that our junior colleagues realize that ideas are welcome, that initiative goes right down to the bottom and goes all the way to the top.

We do not favor one field over another: we think that all inquiry, all scholarly and artistic creation, is good -- provided only that it contributes to a sense and understanding of the true ends of life, as all first-rate scholarship and artistic creation does.

We must determine whether missiles can win a war all by themselves.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.

We need a doctrine of imitation to save us from the solipsism and futility of pure formalism.

We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and the arts.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

We can't think of anyone else who would want to separate serious candidates from other candidates, either.

We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

We don't 'low nigras to walk on the same sidewalk with white men where I come from.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

We moved down Broadway from ginmill to ginmill.

We didn't have time to speak before Eileen's voice was screeching at us from the bed.

We who are living today may learn a valuable lesson from those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day.

We want to stimulate ideas from the bottom to the top of the Department.

We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens of the host country and also volunteers from other lands.