1770, p. 182
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization
“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”
Crotchet Castle, chapter III (1832).
“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”
“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”
Diary (30 October 1892)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.”
United States ex rel. Caminito v. Murphy, 222 F.2d 698, 706 (1955).
that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)
“To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.”
#26570, Part 27
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“The true feeling is a test in continuous experimentation.”
Original: (it) Il vero sentimento è un test in continua sperimentazione.
Source: prevale.net
An Almanac of Liberty (1954), p. 238
Other speeches and writings
“It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.”
Aphorism 39.
Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
