Benjamin Butler (politician) (1818–1893) Union Army general, lawyer, politician
Inscription on monument
Original: La forza nel cuore di ogni vera madre non ha eguali.
Source: prevale.net
Benjamin Butler (politician) (1818–1893) Union Army general, lawyer, politician
Inscription on monument
“Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?”
Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the annual meeting of the Union of Girls' Schools (27 October 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 150-151.
1927
Context: Your work in social service, whatever form it may take, requires exactly those two things that my work requires... patience and faith in human worth. Those are the real foundations of democracy, not equality in the sense in which that word is so often used. We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Il est faux que l’égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n’a rien fait d’égal; la loi souveraine est la subordination et la dépendance.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ogni vera madre per il proprio figlio, ogni giorno compie sacrifici con amore, per donargli un futuro migliore.
Source: prevale.net
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1810s, Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval) (1816)
Context: The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision of our constitution, and see if it hangs directly on the will of the people. Reduce your legislature to a convenient number for full, but orderly discussion. Let every man who fights or pays, exercise his just and equal right in their election.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) German mathematician and physical scientist
Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel (1862)
Context: It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. So there are mere philologists, mere jurists, mere soldiers, mere merchants, etc. To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Variant: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.