“I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.”
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: I fear, in fact I am rather certain, that due to my inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill, I have not made clear the points that assume such prominence and importance in my mind. However, I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
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US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880–1959Related quotes
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: Like all who have held this office before me, I have experienced setbacks. There are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed my conscience and done what I thought was right. You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions.
“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted.”
As quoted in Pan-Sovietism: The Issue Before America and the World, Bruce Campbell Hopper, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company (1931) p. 87
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“I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.”
Preface, In the Net of Stars, 1909
Other Quotes
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 28.
“No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.”
Sonnet. Versöhnung. A Belief.