Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
As quoted in Parted Lips : Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages (2002) by Simone Rich
Source: Spoken on his return to India from England, as recorded in From Colombo to Almora (1904), p. 221
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
As quoted in Parted Lips : Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages (2002) by Simone Rich
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Source: 1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787), Ch. 1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined"
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) Indian politician
His noting in his dairy after his contesting election in 1886 page=10.
Narrow-majority’ and ‘Bow-and-agree’: Public Attitudes Towards the Elections of the First Asian MPs in Britain, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, 1885-1906
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Broadcast from London (25 September 1933), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 13.
1933
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2015-09-03
Donald Trump: "While We're in This Nation, We Should Be Speaking English"
The Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-speak-english-spanish-820215
2010s, 2015
George Jessel (jurist) (1824–1883) British politician
Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Wilson (1876) L.R. 2 C.D. 447.
Jan Hus (1369–1415) Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university educator and science writer
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), p. 225.
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Source: The Reader Over Your Shoulder (1943), Ch. 3: "Where Is Good English to Be Found?"
Context: Where is good English to be found? Not among those who might be expected to write well professionally. Schoolmasters seldom write well: it is difficult for any teacher to avoid either pomposity or, in the effort not to be pompous, a jocular conversational looseness. The clergy suffer from much the same occupational disability: they can seldom decide whether to use "the language of the market-place" or Biblical rhetoric. Men of letters usually feel impelled to cultivate an individual style — less because they feel sure of themselves as individuals than because they wish to carve a niche for themselves in literature; and nowadays an individual style usually means merely a peculiar range of inaccuracies, ambiguities, logical weaknesses and stylistic extravagancies. Trained journalists use a flat, over-simplified style, based on a study of what sells a paper and what does not, which is inadequate for most literary purposes.
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech to the Royal Society of St George (22 April 1961), quoted in A Nation Not Afraid. The Thinking of Enoch Powell (1965), pp. 145–146
Carlos Menem (1930) Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
"A todos ellos les digo que los llevo en mi corazón, que no bajaré los brazos y que pueden tener la absoluta seguridad que no abandonaré la lucha política, que ha sido y es la razón de mi vida."
From a message broadcast on May 14th, in which he explains the reasons of his resign from participating on the May 18th ballotage