Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), V
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Context: Libraries … will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns.
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.”
Henry James book The Ambassadors
Book VI, ch. III
The Ambassadors (1903)
Stendhal book The Red and the Black
Les contemporains qui souffrent de certaines choses ne peuvent s'en souvenir qu'avec une horreur qui paralyse tout autre plaisir, même celui de lire un conte.
Vol. I, ch. XXVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
Kapil Dev (1959) Indian cricketer
Quoted in [Datta Bandegiri,Asavari Fadanis & Aparna Atre, Paper solution English Reader(L.L.) Std.X, http://books.google.com/books?id=iBg8W5l2DlUC&pg=PA87, Jeevandeep Prakashan Pvt Ltd, 87–, GGKEY:C8230HKTBTZ, 87]
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
As quoted in The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004) by Max Wyman, p. 85