Quotes
Quotes about Wit
From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]
The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur.]
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations â entangling alliances with none.
Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.
Peace originates with the flow of things â its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
