“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 6
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
Poem, "Liberty's old story" in Pansies (Third typing, ribbon copy - 231 poems, c. 11-28 February 1929)
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D.H. Lawrence 131
English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930Related quotes
Ibid., p. 133
[X]: text missing in the manuscript.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Contentar-se com o que lhe dão é próprio dos escravos. Pedir masi é próprio das crianças. Conquistar mais é próprio dos loucos [porque toda a conquista é [X]]
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
(1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context.
One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’
Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty.
Disputed
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Plutarch
(46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Alexander Suvorov
(1730–1800) Russian military commander
other version: Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat.
Philip Longworth: The Art of Victory, New York, 1965, cited in af.mil http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/nov-dec/menning.html.
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Part III, CH 2: Chamberlain, p. 185
The Killer Angels (1974)
Voltairine de Cleyre
(1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
keep it when the storm roars and there is a white-streaked sky and blue thunder before, and one's eyes are blinded and one's ears deafened with the war of opposing things; and keep it under the long leaden sky and the gray dreariness that never lifts. Hold unto the last: that is what it means to have a Dominant Idea, which Circumstance cannot break. And such men make and unmake Circumstance.
The Dominant Idea (1910)