
From The Liberty to Trade as Buttressed by National Law (1909) by George H. Earle, Jr.
Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem (24 September 1776)
1770s
Context: To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life - unaccustomed to the din of arms - totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves when opposed to troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge, and superior in arms, makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
From The Liberty to Trade as Buttressed by National Law (1909) by George H. Earle, Jr.
1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)
“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.”
Vol. III, p. 473 - I have read this page twice and cannot find this quote.
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 (1885)
Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
1920s
“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 282
“The Peace and Beauty of any Society is Dependent Upon Justice and Honesty at all Levels.”
Others
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Nine, transformation Of The Global Economy, p. 362
“Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh!”
112
Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)