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«When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
filled, flourish, flourished, patriots, strife, The Patriot
«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen.»
«We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
easy chair, God damn, jeopardy, pardon, patriots, popes, risked, stamped, statesmen
«The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, caste, castes, Party of, patriots, The Military
«The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
blood, from time to time, liberty, patriots, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, The Patriot, Tree, tyrants
«The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. It is its natural manure.»
«What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
from time to time, manure, patriots, refreshed, signify, tyrants
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