Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
Tag: Quote of the Day
15MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Scrope Bedemore Davies
14MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,—
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.
John Davies
13MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!
Audacity, then again audacity, always audacity and the Fatherland will be saved!
Georges Danton
12MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
When I can’t talk sense, I talk metaphor.
John Philpot Curran
11MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran
10MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.
John Philpot Curran
09MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
John Philpot Curran
08MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
John Philpot Curran
07MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
A game which a sharper once played with a dupe,
entitled, ‘Heads I win, tails you lose.
John Wilson Croker