Quoted in Memoir of William Wilberforce, Thomas Price (Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836), pages 59–60. https://ia902609.us.archive.org/5/items/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog.pdf
Slave Trade Bill speech (1807)
Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)
“The greatest treasure that God can give his creatures is and ever will be—genuine existence.”
If these words of Herder be true, cultivation is the key to the most precious of treasures; for as Nature has insured the permanence of existence by implanting in us a force of resistance and self-renovation, so may we, on our side, increase the force of these attributes by self-acquired powers of mind.
p 75 1852 translation
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
“Being your First Lady has been the greatest honor of my life, and I hope I've made you proud.”
2010s, Farewell Speech (2017)
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 15-16).
Essay on Mitford's History of Greece (1824)
Defending himself against a treason charge, on 19 December, 1953
“The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.”
Sentences of Sextus
Source: What Life Could Mean to You
1962, Rice University speech
Context: Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
“The U. S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.”
Hannity's America (6 June 2008) http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/174546/june-19-2008/sean-hannity-loves-america
