
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Proud Poet
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Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness -- War."
Ballads of a Bohemian (1921), Michael
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Proud Poet
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
Autobiography (1821), reprinted in Basic Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Philip S. Foner, New York: Wiley Book Company (1944} p. 464
1820s
Just As I Am : The Autobiography of Billy Graham (1997) co-written with Cliff Barrows
Context: "What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?” a university student asked me several years ago.
"Its brevity" I replied without hesitation. … Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work" (John 9:4). … Life is short, and every day is a gift from God.
Source: When Day is Done (1921), No Room for Hate, stanzas 1 and 2
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 112.
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 79.
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Context: … [Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all men are, white or black... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Khaled Mashal cited in Hamas Leaders Speaking at Damascus Rally: We Shall Regain Safed, Beit Shean, Tiberias, Ashkelon, and Lod http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/988.htm at memritv.org, 30 December 2005: Mashal adresses the crowd in a rally
2005