Charlotte Corday famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

  • June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

  • Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  • Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

  • We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

  • You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way,

  • I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

  • All true patriots will meet in heaven.

  • These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

  • Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.