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- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade:
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
but a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss. - Sir Edward Dyer
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Property has its duties as well as its rights.
- Thomas Brummond
- History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest. - Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. - William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
- Lord William Beveridge (1879 - 1963)
- Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram) - Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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