
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most
"Appeal to Nobles", (June 1853), Imperial Russia, A Source Book 1700-1917
“Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.”
Letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902
1900s
“We know each other, these slaves and we.”
A Song of Defeat (1910)
Context: It is all as of old, the empty clangour,
The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page,
The huckster who, mocking holy anger,
Painfully paints his face with rage.
…
We that fight till the world is free,
We have no comfort in victory;
We have read each other as Cain his brother,
We know each other, these slaves and we.
“If we are not represented, we are slaves.”
Report on the Sugar Act (13 June 1764).
“We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.”
Attributed by Murrow to an unnamed farmer in "Harvest of Shame", CBS Reports (24 November 1960)
Misattributed
2011
Context: I think in America from time to time we have to go through some difficult times — and I think we're going through those difficult economic times for a purpose, to bring us back to those Biblical principles of you know, you don't spend all the money. You work hard for those six years and you put up that seventh year in the warehouse to take you through the hard times. And not spending all of our money. Not asking for Pharaoh to give everything to everybody and to take care of folks because at the end of the day, it's slavery. We become slaves to government.
“We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.”
Source: Love
“We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.”
"On Court-Influence" (January 3/January 10, 1818)
Political Essays (1819)