Quotes
- “It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
- "Go west, young man. ( However, see this link regarding the controversy over the origin of the quote )"
- Horace Greeley's The American Conflict (1864) is the source for President Andrew Jackson allegedly saying, after the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!"
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“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)