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170 quotes
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
“Virtue is debased by self-justification.”
“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter. Written by Voltaire in an over”
“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
“Thoughts, remarks and observations”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes , Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford , ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 2 , p. 256”
“Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error. Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson : 1816”
“The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. Draft Constitution for Virginia”
“Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable.”
“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. Summary View of the Rights of British America”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774); The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, p. 211”
“A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear , than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. Letter to Robert Skipwith (3 August 1771) ; also in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 4, p. 239”
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law]. Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link . Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes , Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford , ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459”
“To begin an affair of that kind now, and carry it on so long a time in form, is by no means a proper plan ... whatever assurances I may give her in private of my esteem for her, or whatever assurances I may ask in return from her, depend on it”
“The exact word used by Bolívar in Spanish is majadero .”
“The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ , Don Quixote . . . and me! Words reportedly said to his physician in his final days, but not his last words, as quoted in Our Lord Don Quixote : The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays (1967) by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by Anthony Kerrigan, p. 386”
“For my enemies I have only forgiveness. If my death shall contribute to the cessation of factions and the consolidation of the Union, I can go tranquilly to my grave.”
“Colombians! my last wishes are for the welfare of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the cessation of party strife, and to the consolidation of the Union, I shall descend in peace to the grave.”
“Colombians ! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. Final proclamation to the people of Colombia (8 December 1830), as quoted in Man of Glory : Simón Bolívar (1939) by Thomas Rourke”
“The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. As quoted in Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970's : The Golden Decade (2009) by J. D. S. Salinas and Daniel Salinas, p. 38”
“[The United States] appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom. As quoted in Simón Bolívar : Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator (2008) by David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley, p. 135”
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty . Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear : The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John Gerassi”
“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system : it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own. Letter from Jamaica”
“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay ; its free government is transformed into a tyranny ; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism . The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability. Letter from Jamaica”
“So much of our profession is taken up with pretending ... that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy. Where's the Rest of Me?”
“The book title is taken from the comment by Drake McHugh (Reagan's character) in the film Kings Row (1942) after his legs have been amputated.”
“Some seem to forget that I’ve worked with those on movies and television . I warn you. Television may be exciting, but always take what you watch or read with a grain of salt. The more extreme these people act, the more money they make. They don’t care about us. You should always do your own research using verified primary sources. Editorials or articles published can be exciting, but they are seldom the truth. This country will eventually be destroyed for the sake of a paycheck. Where's the Rest of Me? First Edition”
“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary. As quoted in The Los Angeles Times”
“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas . As quoted in The Fresno Bee”
“We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. Televised speech (27 October 1964), cited in Reagan's Reign of Error (1983) by Mark Green”
“bold new imaginative”
“Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas , six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine”
“Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce”
“The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.”
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities . It is an ideal which I hope to live for . But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
“But the violence which we chose to adopt was not terrorism. We who formed Umkhonto were all members of the African National Congress , and had behind us the ANC tradition of non”
“I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue. I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the Whites.”
“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life ; I fight it now , and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
“It is fit and proper to raise the question sharply, what is this rigid color”
“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys”
“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France , England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history . On a 1961 conference held in Ethiopia, as quoted in Rivonia Unmasked (1965) by Strydom Lautz, p. 108; also in Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Nelson Mandela : An Ecological Study (2002), by J. C. Buthelezi, p. 172”
“There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non”
“and keep men's minds centered on”
“He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church”
“disturbing the peace”
“There lived a race of people a black people, ‘fleecy locks and black complexion’, a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization.”
“Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love , love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith . There is another side called justice . And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”
“justice runs down like water , and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
“We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus . The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”
“We, the disinherited of this land , we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality . Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”
“You know my friends , there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair . There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November . There comes a time. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”
“Where is the black man's Government?”
“I read "Up From Slavery," by Booker T. Washington, and then my doom”
“Indeed Haile Selassie has proved the incompetence of the Negro for political authority, but thank God there are Negroes who realise that Haile Selassie did not represent the truest qualities of the Negro race. How could he, when he wanted to play white? How could he, when he surrounded himself with white influence? How could he, when in a modern world, and in a progressive civilization, he preferred a slave State of black men than a free democratic country where the black citizens could rise to the same opportunities as white citizens in their democracies?”
“The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor”
“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started. Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. ISBN 0714611433 .”
“The Work That Has Been Done”
“We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. 1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, "Marcus Garvey," in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.”
“Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446 .”
“Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country… The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey or Africa for the Africans (Majority Press, 1986 ed.), p. 163. ISBN 0912469242 .”
“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison" (10 February 1925).”
“They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Oxford Union Debate”
“Malcolm X Lays Harlem Riot To ‘Scare Tactics’ of Police”
“We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims . We didn't land on Plymouth Rock . The rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today. Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro”
“There can be no black”
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there. TV interview after 90”
“this is a moral issue.”
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
“Malcolm X Scores U.S. and Kennedy”
“Malcolm X Scores Kennedy on Racial Policy: Says He Is 'Wrong Because His Motivation Is Wrong': Head of Black Muslim Group Cites Birmingham Crisis”
“Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti”
“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery . … Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery . Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonisation [2] , 1964”
“We know that the traditional African society was founded on principles of egalitarianism . In its actual workings, however, it had various shortcomings. Its humanist impulse, nevertheless, is something that continues to urge us towards our all”
“Speech delivered by Osagyefo the President at the Laying of the Foundation Stone of Ghana's Atomic Reactor at Kwabenya on 25th November, 1964”
“To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator”
“We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more … We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality. Quoted in Canadian Institute of International Affairs International Journal , Volumes 13”
“Just as in the days of the Egyptians , so today God had ordained that certain among the African race should journey westwards to equip themselves with knowledge and experience for the day when they would be called upon to return to their motherland and to use the learning they had acquired to help improve the lot of their brethren. ...I had not realized at the time that I would contribute so much towards the fulfillment of this prophecy. The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). As quoted by George P. Hagan in Nkrumah's Leadership Style”
“Together as one*”
“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”
“Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society. The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957), p. x.”
“For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non”
“For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven. Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google”
“Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas'”
“Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. [blank] at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos [faith need not be kept with heretics]. Journal entry (25 January 1676), quoted in John Lough (ed.), Locke's Travels in France 1675”
“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
“Hand Book : Caution and Counsels”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world , and the seed”
“The good King of France desires only that you would take his word and let him be quiet till he has got the West Indies into his hands and his grandson well established in Spain, and then you may be sure you shall be as safe as he will let you be in your religion, property and trade, to all which who can be such an infidel as not to believe him a great friend? Letter to Peter King (5 April 1701), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 452”
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression . A Letter Concerning Toleration”
“Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed with the conversation and friendship of a person so extraordinary enjoys all that remains of paradise in this world. Letter to Mary Clarke (7 May 1682), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 221”
“The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief. Journal entry (16 May 1681), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 200”
“The way to get along,”
“Senators , we hear, must be politicians”
“Mr. President, Senate Joint Resolution 31, concerning which there has been little, if any, public interest or knowledge, constitutes one of the most far”
“In the Chinese language , the word " crisis " is composed of two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity . Remarks at the United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana (12 April 1959) ; Box 902, Senate Speech Files, Pre”
“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past”
“If more politicians knew poetry , and more poets knew politics , I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956) ; Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre”
“Regarding the Republican Party : They follow the Hitler line”
“Where in the hell have you guys been? I've been at this bus stop for a whole week now." Kennedy upon being rescued.”
“11 ALIVE NATIVE KNOWS POSIT & REEF NAURU ISLAND KENNEDY”
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Undated Letter to a Navy friend ; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007) ; also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88”
“What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal.... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. On Alberto Giacometti 's work, Situations , in Braziller”
“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. Refusing the Nobel Prize , New York Times”
“Marxism and Subjectivity”
“Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,”
“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good , and nothing can be good for us without being good for all. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ,”
“He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well”
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason )”
“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom . L'imagination ( Imagination: A Psychological Critique )”
“Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560”
“Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse”
“Chère amie, ne savez”
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty , nor liberty without virtue . As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 301.”
“An honest man nearly always thinks justly. As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 277.”
“English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 2.”
“L'accent est l'âme du discours. Accent is the soul of language ; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”
“All that time is lost which might be better employed. As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel”
“Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes. Le devin du village”
“Harriet Tubman never said this”
“but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See”
“The phrase " Liberty or Death " is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.”
“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”
“I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty”
“Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
“I looked at my hands , to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees , and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven . On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states”
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say”
“I can't die but once. As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson”
“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'. As quoted in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1971), by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, pp. 14”
“To expect … the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is. Letter to the President of Congress”
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. Letter to Benedict Arnold”
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. George Washington to New York Legislature”
“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. Washington's formal acceptance of command of the Army (16 June 1775), quoted in The Writings of George Washington : Life of Washington (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 141”
“As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. Acceptance speech after being "elected" by the Continental Congress as commander of the yet”
“Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice? Letter to Mr. George William Fairfax (31 May 1775) George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress”
“The General is sorry to be informed”
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments”
“Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to Love”
“Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. Letter to Governor Dinwiddie”
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144”
“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman”
“Silence is argument carried out by other means. As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile”
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January”
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves. Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36”
“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178”
“In order to know about the illnesses of society , you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer. As quoted in Testimonies About Che (2006) by Marta Rojas, p. 85”
“I don't think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades , and that is more important. Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol”
“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people. As quoted in Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005) by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, as translated by Sarah L. Smith (2006), p. 170”
“Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.”
“I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) , Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119”
“Whatever Spiteful fools may Say”
“I am mighty near one. When asked if he was an abolitionist”
“Lincoln's First Reported Speech”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”
“Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but God knows When Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”