"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!"

Source : Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

William Pitt

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Arms Quotes

“People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.”
“Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.”
“There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.”

Source : Pierre Bayle (1735). “The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.779
“A bad workman blames his tools.”
“My future depends mostly upon myself.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2010). “Eternal on the Water”, p.353, Simon and Schuster
“No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley”
“...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...”

"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!"

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