Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
Context: If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
No Cross, No Crown (1682)
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.
St. 5.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 379.
Wartet nur! [Only Wait!] in Poems for the Times ; also in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 263
(This contains an allusion to the book of Isaiah Chapter 11, verse 6
1960s, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
Context: I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land. "And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid." I still believe that We Shall overcome!'
Speech to Working Men of Dundee July 14, 1875 Evoking Burn’s A Man’s A Man For A’ That - Speeches of Alexander Mackenzie during his recent visit...page 44
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 232.
