
Letter to George Washington (24 April 1779)
Source: Never Let Me Go
Letter to George Washington (24 April 1779)
2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)
“Look at the poverty of our life! Can we expect anything else but poor creatures to come out of it?”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: The "dreams of youth" have become a proverb. That organisations, early rich, fall far short of their promise has been repeated to satiety. But is it extraordinary that it should be so? For do we ever utilise this heroism? Look how it lives upon itself and perishes for lack of food. We do not know what to do with it. We had rather that it should not be there. Often we laugh at it. Always we find it troublesome. Look at the poverty of our life! Can we expect anything else but poor creatures to come out of it?
For some, he concluded, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.
Source: Quoted in Impeachment is Over, But Don’t Despair by Diallo Brooks, CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/impeachment-is-over-but-dont-despair/, (7 Feb 2020)
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1211661167728480256, (18 December 2019)