“Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
2002, "When select phrases are lifted and distorted out of context", 2002
“Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in a letter of Vincent to brother Theo van Gogh, from Etten (Netherlands), Spring, 1877; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 90), p. 7 <br class="br">1870s
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address in San Francisco, California (13 May 1903) http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly <br class="br">1900s
“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest
Coggs vs. Bernard, Lord Raymond, 911, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason", Edward Coke, First Institute.
“Let us never forget that he who would serve God must prove that he is worthy by serving man.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
1950s, Closing address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1955)
I have been saying for a long time that I believe the more young Americans who are trained to join with other young people in the world to be sent abroad with slide rule, textbook, and medical kit to help people help themselves with the tools of peace, the fewer young people will need to be sent with guns and weapons of war.
Source: Closing Address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, New York, New York, December 2, 1955, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 102
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2002, "When select phrases are lifted and distorted out of context", 2002