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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

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England and France

Speaker

Horatio, Lord Nelson

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1813, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

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Changing the world Progress

Speaker

Maya Lin

Source

NEA Arts Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Lin, Maya. Interviewed by Rebecca Gross. NEA Arts Magazine, no. 4, 2011, www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2011/4/what-innovation/maya-lin

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

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Profits Prosperity Capitalism

Author

David Ricardo

Source

On Protection to Agriculture

Medium

Essay

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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Credulity Doubt and skepticism

Author

Orville Wright

Source

Letters of Orville Wright

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Orville. "Orville Wright to George A. Spratt, Dayton, Ohio, June 7, 1908." Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Fred. C. Kelly. Da Capo Press, 2002. Originally a letter to George A. Spratt. 7 June 1908.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Insanity

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

Prosperity is not without many Feares and Distastes; and Adversity is not without Comforts and Hopes.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Downsides of wealth

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Adversity Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Adversity." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Adversity." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Sun-girt city, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Venice Cities

Speaker

On Venice.

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills." Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1819, I. 115.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 115.

It is a source of deep regret that in some sections of our country misguided persons have occasionally indulged in schemes and agitations whose object is the destruction of domestic institutions existing in other sections—institutions which existed at the adoption of the Constitution and were recognized and protected by it.

James K. Polk

Inaugural Address of James K. Polk

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Topic

Pre-Civil War conflict American politics

Speaker

James K. Polk

Source

Inaugural Address of James K. Polk Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Polk, James K. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1845, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Lord Byron

She Walks in Beauty

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Beautiful women

Author

Lord Byron

Source

She Walks in Beauty Hebrew Melodies

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1815 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Lord Byron. "She Walks in Beauty." Hebrew Melodies. London: John Murray, 1815, st. 1.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "She Walks in Beauty." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 1.

We ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of all nations, and never attempt to interfere in the domestic concerns of any unless this shall be imperatively required by the great law of self-preservation.

James Buchanan

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan

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Non-intervention Isolationism American foreign policy

Speaker

James Buchanan

Source

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Buchanan, James. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1857, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

James I

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Governing Politics

Speaker

James I

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

James I. Speech to Parliament. Dec. 1621, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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Topic

Inflation Political theory Politics Economics

Author

John Maynard Keynes

Source

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016, ch. 6.

I met a Lady in the Meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child
Her hair was long, her foot was light
And her eyes were wild—

John Keats

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Beautiful women Women

Author

John Keats

Source

La belle dame sans merci The Indicator

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Keats, John. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." The Indicator. London: Joseph Appleyard, 10 May 1820, st. 4.

Current Citation

Keats, John. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, st. 4.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.

William Congreve

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Power of music Music

Speaker

Almeria

Author

William Congreve

Source

The Mourning Bride

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play

Language

English

Time

1697 1690s 17th century

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Citation

Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride. 1697, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.

Joan Didion

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Topic

Seeking Meaninglessness

Author

Joan Didion

Source

The White Album The White Album (essay)

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. "The White Album." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

1989 Farewell Address

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Limited government Freedom Political theory Government Politics

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

Source

1989 Farewell Address Presidential Farewell Address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. "Farewell Address to the Nation." 11 Jan. 1989, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

In all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Tyranny Separation of powers Government Political theory Politics

Author

William Blackstone

Source

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 2.

Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

The Holy State and the Profane State

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Light Architecture

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

The Holy State and the Profane State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1642 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 7.

We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

Ruby Sales

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Anger in politics Anger Politics

Speaker

Ruby Sales

Source

On Being

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Sales, Ruby. "Where Does It Hurt?" Interviewed by Krista Tippett. On Being. WNYC, 15 Sept 2016.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

Abigail Adams

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Topic

Gender relations Oppression of women Men and women

Author

Abigail Adams

Source

Letters of Abigail Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1778 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Thaxter. 15 Feb. 1778.

Current Citation

Adams, Abigail. "Letter to John Thaxter, 1778." The Adams Papers: The Adams Family Correspondence Volumes 1 & 2, edited by L. H. Butterfield. Anthenum, 1965.