Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 8 “Unrequited Hate” (p. 239)
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
Letter to Henry Clay (11 November 1844), as quoted in Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson (1966) edited by Bill Adler
1840s
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Millard Fillmore 6
American politician, 13th President of the United States (i… 1800–1874Related quotes
“But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man”
Pope Alexander VI
(1431–1503) pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503
Quoted in, Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, Peter de Roo, 2:378 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=%22God%2C+who+grants+pardon+and+loves+to+save+man%22&id=mdp.39015013144061&view=1up&seq=9 http://www.attomelani.net/index.php/english/the-new-series-of-monaldi-sorti/the-doubts-of-salai/ Compare: For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people." - St. Augustine, On the Verse of the Psalm: God Will Come Openly, (420-425), Sermon 18:2. Works of Saint Augustine, A translation for the 21st Century, (1990), Pt. III - Sermons, vol. I, (1-19), Edmund Hill, O.P.,translation and notes, John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., New City Press, New York, p. 374. Latin: Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos. http://www.augustinus.it/latino/discorsi/discorso_022_testo.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=Z2w7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT10&dq=Non+enim+amat+Deus+damnare+sed+salvare,+et+ideo+patiens&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_c41U5u-BbTTsASR8oDwDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Non%20enim%20amat%20Deus%20damnare%20sed%20salvare%2C%20et%20ideo%20patiens&f=false
Context: But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man, in his goodness, give strength to us and make prosperous the Holy See.
“It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.”
Ambrose
(339–397) bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church
De fide, I, 5, 42.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(1919–1980) Shah of Iran
Oriana Fallaci (December 30, 1973), The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran (interview), Chicago Tribune
Interviews
Ferdinand Marcos
(1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Address at the launching of the Mabuhay Ang Pilipino Movement, Malacañang (30 November 1972)
1965
“For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.”
Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos.
Aurelius Augustinus
(354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
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Sermons
“Not enough evidence God! Not enough evidence!”
As quoted in Wesley C. Salmon's "Religion and Science: A New Look at Hume's Dialogues," Philosophical Studies 33 (1978), p. 176.
Also in the New York Times article So God's Really in the Details? (May 11, 2002) by Emily Eakin: "Asked what he would say if God appeared to him after his death and demanded to know why he had failed to believe, the British philosopher and staunch evidentialist Bertrand Russell replied that he would say, 'Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence.'
The original source of this quote is an article by Leo Rosten published in Saturday Review/World (February 23, 1974) which features an interview with Bertrand Russell. There, Rosten writes http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1974feb23-00025: "Confronted with the Almighty, [Russell] would ask, 'Sir, why did you not give me better evidence?'"
Disputed
“We ask God to save our poor people from trials and harms.”
Hibatullah Akhundzada
(1961) leader of Afghanistan and Taliban
Amir al-Mu'minin's message of condolence to the victims of an earthquake in Paktika and Khost https://ocs.gov.af/en/news_details/1122, 22 June 2022
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, On Democratic Government (1864)
Context: But the rebellion continues, and, now that the election is over, may not all have a common interest to reunite in a common effort to save our common country? For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way. So long as I have been here, I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom. While I am duly sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God, for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed by the result.