“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
“Vanquisht men's safety is to hope for none.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.”
Theocritus ancient greek poet
Idyll 4, line 42; translation by A. S. F. Gow, from Theocritus ([1950] 1952) vol. 1, p. 37.
Compare Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum [Epistle To Atticus], Book IX, 10, 4: Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est [While the sick man has life, there is hope.]
Idylls
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
The Petersburg men had written Douglass seeking advice about supporting John M. Langston as their Republican candidate for Congress. He would be their first black representative, but earlier he had worked against the Republican party. Douglass called him a trickster and said not to support anyone "whose mad ambition would imperil the success of the Republican party."
1880s, Letter to the Men of Petersburg (1888)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 34
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician
Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.”
Allen West (politician) (1961) American politician; retired United States Army officer
At his 2004 hearing, regarding his conduct of an interrogation. [Department of the Army, 43rd Military Police Detachment (CID)(FWD), 10th Military Police Battalion, United States Army Criminal Investigation Command, Memorandum, Subject: CID Report Of Investigation – Final – 0152-03-CID469-60212-5C1A/5C2/5T1, February 6, 2004, http://www.aclu.org/files/projects/foiasearch/pdf/DODDOACID000105.pdf, September 28, 2010]
2000s
“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Source: The Toilers of the Sea