“Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory.
And if you cannot curb your ambitions,
at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously.
And the higher you go,
the more searching and careful you need to be.”
The Ides of March http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=86&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
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(Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within.”
There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.
Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
Prime Minister
“Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
Into our souls the secret of your power!”
"Comrades", p. 49.
Along the Trail (1898)
Speech to Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=12935 (30 May 1685).
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 36 (p. 487)