
Address in Pocatello, Idaho (5 October 1911).
On the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
Franklin D. Roosevelt had this inscribed on the mantlepiece of the State Dining Room
1800s
Address in Pocatello, Idaho (5 October 1911).
Vohu-Khshathra Gatha; Yasna 51, 1.
The Gathas
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“Liberty … is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
“None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have.”
Boston Hymn. 1863
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”
Letter to William Eustis http://books.google.com/books?id=S088AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319 (22 June 1809), published in Writings of John Quincy, Adams (1914), The Macmillan company.
Variant: All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.