Joseph Brant famous quotes
50 minutes ago
-
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
-- Joseph Brant -
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
-- Joseph Brant -
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
-- Joseph Brant -
We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.
-- Joseph Brant
-
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
-
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
-
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
-
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
-
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
-
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
-
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
-
Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
-
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
You may also like:
-
Abigail Adams
Former First Lady of the United States -
Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President -
Daniel Boone
Author -
Francis Marion
Military Officer -
George Washington
1st U.S. President -
Henry Clay
Former United States Representative -
James Madison
4th U.S. President -
John Burgoyne
Politician -
John Marshall
Former Chief Justice of the United States -
John Paul Jones
Sailor -
Marquis de Lafayette
Political figure -
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer -
Nathanael Greene
Major -
Oliver Hazard Perry
Military Commander -
Richard Henry Lee
Former President of the Continental Congress -
Sitting Bull
Tribal chief -
Tecumseh
Tribal chief -
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President