Famous quote: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Who said that?

The original form is “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” It’s a practice sentence for typing invented by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. Some teachers substituted “their country” for “the party” because it makes the line exactly 70 characters long including a period.

Another source says that it’s a sentence devised to test the speed of the first typewriter, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1867, during “an exciting political campaign,” that the author is unknown and that Weller simply wrote about it in his 1918 book, “The Early History of the Typewriter.”

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Famous quote: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Who said that?

I believed it was introduced by Englishman Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–1897) to help people place their Pitmans’ shorthand symbols. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” contains all the vowel sounds in the English (R.P.) language. Pitmans symbols are placed either above the line, on the line or through the line depending on the vowel sound. The aforesaid sentence ensures shorthand writers know how to place shorthand vowel sounds in the English words..

“The quick brown fox jumped over the lady dog” contains all the letters of the alphabet and is useful in making sure touch typists know where every letter is on the keyboard.

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The ‘famous man’ was former Supreme Court Justice (and Harvard alum, thus sharing the alma mater with JFK) Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr. in a Memorial Day speech given in Keene, New Hampshire in 1884. “It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

Do a web search for it, simple. Just search for “famous quotations.” Or even type half of the quote and it’ll pop right up. You can almost instantly find any quote like that. If you’re in a library, the book you want is Bartlett’s Quotations.

Patrick Hanry

Cicero

Party, not country. If you’re old enough, you know this first-hand. #