James Oglethorpe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
-- James Oglethorpe

#Together #Principles #Slave

From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

James Oglethorpe famous quotes

You may also like: