"When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship."

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Source : Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

Chauncey Depew

#Home Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press
“I love to have fun. I do my own shopping. I do my own yardwork. I like to garden. I like to fish. I like to golf. I'm an outdoorsman. I like to cook. But when I hit the football stadium, I click the switch, because I know I'm there for a job. I get in a whole different mindset when I enter the stadium. But once I leave I'm back to being a father, husband, a friend.”
“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.”
“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”
“The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.”

Source : "Justice Delayed". FTSE Global Markets, May/June 2005.
“I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.”
“Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity”
“No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.”

Source : Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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