All Quotes
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“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Speech to the House of Commons (June 4, 1940)”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Speech to the House of Commons (August 20, 1940)”
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
“The price of greatness is responsibility”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Speech at Harvard University (1943)”
“I write as a sow pisses. Letter to his sister ( Milan , 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations , Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972”
“Sie wird das nothwendigste und härteste und die hauptsache in der Musique niemahlen bekommen, nämlich das tempo, weil sie sich vom jugend auf völlig befliessen hat, nicht auf den tact zu spiellen.”
“Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906) [1]”
“The most stimulating and encouraging thought is that you, dearest father, and my dear sister, are well, that I am an honest German, and that if I am not always permitted to talk I can think what I please; but that is all. Letter to Leopold Mozart (Paris, 29 April 1778), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel”
“I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know”
“A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0”
“As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me. Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Mannheim, 12 November 1778), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“…passions, violent or not, must never be expressed to the point of disgust, and Music must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing, in other words always remain Music… Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Vienna, 26 September 1781), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“My fatherland has always the first claim on me. Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 November 1781), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).”
“The golden mean, the truth, is no longer recognized or valued. To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it, or so incomprehensible that it pleases simply because no sensible man can comprehend it. in a letter to his father, 1782”
“I yield to no one precedence in love for the South . But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy . Essay on John Bright , Virginia University Magazine , 19:354”
“Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee”
“The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics... The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it. Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 4, p. 135”
“Socialism and Democracy,”
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. As quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2”
“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”
“Administration is the most obvious part of government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.”
“Like a lusty child, government with us has expanded in nature and grown great in stature, but has also become awkward in movement... English and American political history has been a history, not of administrative development, but of legislative oversight”
“The principles on which to base a science of administration for America, must be principles which have democratic policy very much at heart.”
“The English race , consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government, It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well”
“Ah done been in sorrow 's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus. Lucy in Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Ch. 6, p. 13”