#Government Quotes #Long Quotes #Democracy Quotes
“Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.”
“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”
“A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.”
Source : George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”
“No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.”
“When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.”
“People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.”
“I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.”
“The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!”
Charles Lamb Writer
D. H. Lawrence Novelist
Edmund Clarence Stedman Poet
Eric Hoffer Philosopher
Havelock Ellis Physician
Leigh Hunt Poet
Robert Southey Poet
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet
Thomas Browne Author
