Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Liberty and Union , now and for ever , one and inseparable . " Liberty exists in proportion to wholsome restraint . DANIEL WEBSTER ( 1782-1852 ) — in a speech delivered May 10 , 1847 . Liberty is no negation . It is a substantive ...
... Liberty and Union , now and for ever , one and inseparable . " Liberty exists in proportion to wholsome restraint . DANIEL WEBSTER ( 1782-1852 ) — in a speech delivered May 10 , 1847 . Liberty is no negation . It is a substantive ...
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... ( Liberty of action and liberty of movement . ) Maxim of the school of QUESNAY ( 1694-1774 ) , generally attributed to GOURNAY ( 1712-59 ) . Cf. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations , bk . iv , ch . 9 . Laissez la verdure . ( Leave the green ...
... ( Liberty of action and liberty of movement . ) Maxim of the school of QUESNAY ( 1694-1774 ) , generally attributed to GOURNAY ( 1712-59 ) . Cf. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations , bk . iv , ch . 9 . Laissez la verdure . ( Leave the green ...
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... liberty ) . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) —in a speech at the Guildhall , Nov. 9 , 1879 . " One of the greatest of Romans , " when asked what were his politics , " replied , Imperium et Libertas . " That would ...
... liberty ) . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) —in a speech at the Guildhall , Nov. 9 , 1879 . " One of the greatest of Romans , " when asked what were his politics , " replied , Imperium et Libertas . " That would ...
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 30 |
FRENCH SAYINGS | 82 |
GERMAN 99 | 190 |
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord Louis XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur Monsieur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on qu'un Queen quoted referring Reichstag reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM ἂν γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς