Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...and 1939–48 Mankind is once more on the move. The very foundations have been shaken and loosened, and things are again fluid. The tents have been struck, and the great caravan of humanity is once more on the march. on the setting up of the League of Nations, in the wake of the First World War W. K. Hancock Smuts (1968) mankind is on the move tents have been struck great caravan of...
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...and 1939–48 There is no doubt that mankind is once more on the move. The very foundations have been shaken and loosened, and things are again fluid. The tents have been struck, and the great caravan of humanity is once more on the march. on the League of Nations W. K. Hancock Smuts (1968) mankind is on the move tents have been struck great caravan of...
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...led Boer forces during the Second Boer War, but afterwards supported the policy of Anglo-Boer cooperation Mankind is once more on the move. The very foundations have been shaken and loosened, and things are again fluid. The tents have been struck, and the great caravan of humanity is once more on the march. on the setting up of the League of Nations, in the wake of the First World War W. K. Hancock Smuts (1968) mankind is on the move tents have been struck great caravan of...
(Sir) Anthony Eden (18971977) Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...for peace, striving for peace, and negotiating for peace. I have been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man. And I am still the same man, with the same convictions, and the same devotion to peace. I could not be other even if I wished, but I am utterly convinced that the action we have taken is...
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...of the US 1913–21; he eventually took America into the First World War in 1917 and played a leading role in the peace negotiations and the formation of the League of Nations . On Wilson: see clemenceau It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. on seeing D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation at the White House, 18 February 1915 writing history with lightning writing history with lightning No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. speech in New York, 20 April 1915 nation ...
Vernon Bartlett (1894–1983) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...they had been in the same position. when Germany left the League of Nations in 1933 in a BBC radio broadcast (which caused a storm of protest); quoted in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition) ‘Vernon Bartlett’ acted in much the same way British would have acted same way as Germany has acted I, and many others who had interviews with him, were at first impressed by his sincerity, and later realized that he was sincere only in his belief that he was destined to rule the world. of Adolf hitler I Know What I Liked (1974) destined to...
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. This was a Flag Day speech, the anniversary of the official adoption of the flag on June 14, 1777 speech, June 14, 1915 There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. speech, Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 1, 1916 Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at. This speech, which prefigured the proposal to create a League of Nations, featured a program of peace as its first point: “The program of the world's peace, therefore,...
William Allen White (1868–1944) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
... White 1868 – 1944 God gave him a great vision. The devil gave him an imperious heart. The proud heart is still. The vision lives. Wilson suffered a stroke while campaigning to win support for the League of Nations editorial on the death of Pres. Woodrow Wilson, Emporia Gazette , Feb. 4, 1924 All dressed up with nowhere to go. White, the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette in Kansas, thus described the Progressive Party after Theodore Roosevelt, its candidate in 1912, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. According...
Frederick Douglass (1818–95) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
... Philip S. Foner , ed., Vol. II [1950] The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America. speech, Emancipation League, Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1862 The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. speech, Church of the Puritans, New York City, May 1863 In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line. speech, Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Ky., Sept. 24, 1883 He is whipped oftenest, who is whipped...
Democratic Party Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...Cox of Ohio favored the League of Nations and the repeal of Prohibition. He lost badly in a three-way race against Warren Harding and Eugene Debs. Cox's running mate was Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic presidential campaign slogan, 1920 A corrupt bargain. The phrase refers to the appointment of Henry Clay as secretary of state by Pres. John Quincy Adams. Clay, the Speaker of the House, was a loser in the presidential campaign of 1824, in which four candidates split the vote. Jackson received a plurality of the popular vote but fell well short of the...
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...League, 9 June 1864, in R. P. Basler (ed.) Collected Works… (1953) vol. 7; see proverbs swap horses when crossing swap horses when crossing Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgements of...
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...Hooker to command of the Army of the Potomac in 1863 Shelby Foote The Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian (1991) generals who gain success ask of you is military success risk the dictatorship I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. letter to A. G. Hodges, 4 April 1864 events have controlled me It is not best to swap horses when crossing streams. reply to National Union League, 9 June 1864 swap horses when crossing swap horses when crossing I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration...
Sayings and slogans Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
... 25 April 1960 [ death is ] nature's way nature 's way of telling you telling you to slow down A dog is for life, not just for Christmas. slogan of the National Canine Defence League, now the Dogs Trust dog is for life dog is for life not just for Christmas Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. instruction on punched cards (1950s, and in differing forms from the 1930s) fold , spindle or mutilate fold, spindle or mutilate fold, spindle or mutilate Don't be evil. informal corporate motto of the search engine Google Don't be evil The family that prays...
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from earth. Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a permanent cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield. Edward Everett of Massachusetts was the principal speaker, but the superintendent of the enterprise, David Wills, asked Lincoln to make “a few appropriate remarks.” The battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the greatest battle of...
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...the form of the Latin motto: Ubi libertas, ibi patria . For Franklin, the root of the attribution may be in a letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789, in which Franklin wrote: “God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.' ” attributed A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. Poor Richard's Almanack , May 1752 Wrapped in the speculations of this...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. ‘The Brook’ (1855) l. 23 haunts of coot and hern haunts of coot and hern haunts of coot and hern make a sudden sally sparkle out among the fern bicker down a valley For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. ‘The Brook’ (1855) l. 33 men may come men may come I go on for ever Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854) Listen Half a league ...
Sayings and slogans Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk? modern saying, often wrongly attributed to Albert einstein sign of a cluttered mind sign of a cluttered mind think of an empty desk think of an empty desk If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Bert Lance (1931–2012) in Nation's Business May 1977 If it ain't broke don't fix it If life hands you lemons, make lemonade. late 20th century saying If life hands you lemons If life hands you lemons make lemonade If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. late...
(Sir) Winston Churchill (18741965) Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...The source for this story was Alan Searle, one of Maugham's acolytes. Churchill's daughter, Mary Soames, questioned it when it was included in my Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations (1987), and it is surely of dubious veracity. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Radio broadcast (1 October 1939). Not, as might appear, a general reflection on the Russian character but a specific response to the Soviet occupation of East Poland, in league with Germany, on 18 September. I would say to the...
Taxes Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
..., Prime Minister 1940–5, 1951–5 address to the inaugural meeting of the Free Trade League, February 19, 1904; Randolph Churchill Winston Churchill: Young Statesman (1967) The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 83 French statesman attributed art of taxation consists largest possible amount of feathers smallest possible amount of hissing In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and...
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...forth upon this continent new nation , conceived in liberty all men are created equal The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them. John Hay Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary (1908) vol 1, 23 December 1863 prefers common -looking people I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. letter to A. G. Hodges, 4 April 1864 events have controlled me It is not best to swap horses when crossing streams. reply to National Union League, 9 June 1864 swap horses when...
