William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 26, lines 1-4
“As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.”
Statement about Tadeusz Kościuszko, in a letter to Horatio Gates (1798)
1790s
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“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.”
Ethan Allen (1738–1789) American general
As quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963)
Context: Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country.
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Volume 1, p. 424.
“Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
XXIV. 505–506 (tr. Robert Fagles); Priam to Achilles.
Richmond Lattimore's translation:
: I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through;
I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Conference on domestic violence https://web.archive.org/web/20010726225357/http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19981117.html in San Salvador, El Salvador (17 November 1998). <br class="br">White House years (1993–2000)
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own?”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763)