“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Man was Made to Mourn (1786)
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.”
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
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No. 195 (13 October 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
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Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Jórunn of Veghús
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Three: The House of the Poet
“God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Tipu Sultan (1750–1799) Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore
Circular of Tipu Sultan to local administrators on 1790. Cited in "India as a Secular State" Page 72 by "Donald Eugene Smith" https://books.google.com.sa/books?id=8zXWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 <br class="br">From Tipu Sultan's Decrees
Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit
November 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20040421/www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_11_24_corner-archive.asp <br class="br">2000s, 2004
“(Sylvia to her daughter) Rita, your body may be a temple. Mine is a Chevy Vega.”
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.105
“On this fourth day of July, 1962, we”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1962, Address at Independence Hall
Context: On this fourth day of July, 1962, we who are gathered at this same hall, entrusted with the fate and future of our States and Nation, declare now our vow to do our part to lift the weights from the shoulders of all, to join other men and nations in preserving both peace and freedom, and to regard any threat to the peace or freedom of one as a threat to the peace and freedom of all.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter
Quote in: Undated letters to Jackson, in The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. Mary Woodall, 1961
undated, Undated letters to William Jackson
