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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.


Caleb Cushing

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Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.
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BIBLE Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye...
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ALICE MORSE EARLE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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BIBLE If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...
SAMUEL ADAMS In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New Englan...
ELIZABETH STROUT If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating conte...
SAMUEL ADAMS If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contes...
SAMUEL ADAMS I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no great...
ALICE MORSE EARLE Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your e...
BIBLE If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...
SAMUEL ADAMS If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are eve...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that s...
PAUL HARRIS Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that f...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own,...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: ...
BIBLE By the power of Grayskull. . . I have the power!" Nick
"By the power of Grayskull, I'm going to...
SHERRILYN KENYON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating cont...
SAMUEL ADAMS We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To make the plough go before the horse.
JAMES I OF ENGLAND God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; An...
JAMES I OF ENGLAND A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, an...
JAMES I OF ENGLAND A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND All my possessions for a moment of time.


ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will
JAMES I OF ENGLAND Remember, Remember
JAMES I OF ENGLAND You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that rema...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You withheld these three myocardial infarctions from the New England Journal of Medicine.
ANDY BIRCHFIELD We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to r...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no s...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, liv...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON