Benjamin Butler (politician) (1818–1893) Union Army general, lawyer, politician
Inscription on monument
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Benjamin Butler (politician) (1818–1893) Union Army general, lawyer, politician
Inscription on monument
Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923) United States Army general and Chief of Engineers
Robert's Rules of Order Revised, 1915, preface http://www.paulmcclintock.com/quotes.htm
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 387
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Herbert Spencer book Social Statics
Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3
Social Statics (1851)
“An honest man nearly always thinks justly.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 277.
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 or 6 September 1644)
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
General Order (9 July 1776) George Washington Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 3g Varick Transcripts <br class="br">1770s
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)