2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
“Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”
On Prohibition; sometimes misquoted as referring to Prohibition as "a noble experiment"; reported as such in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 47-48.
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)
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The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 137
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Greatness is often born of the passionate dance between a rare talent and a noble purpose.”
The Pathfinder (1998)
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p. xi
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Work report at the Communist Party of China Congress (8 November 2002), as quoted in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, Eng. ed., FLP, Beijing, 2013, Vol. III, p. 519.
2000s
Speech at the at the 74th UN General Assembly. Statement by Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil http://statements.unmeetings.org/GA74/BR_EN.pdf. United Nations PaperSmart (24 September 2019).
Property (1935)
Context: If adequate motivations could be assured, a far higher degree of efficiency could be maintained in socialized industries than in industries operated for private gain.
Speech at Labour Party conference (1 October 1963), quoted in Labour Party Annual Conference Report, 1963, pp. 139-140. Usually quoted as "the white heat of the technological revolution".
Leader of the Opposition