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Thomas Paine29 quotes
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine · 1792But where says some is the king of America?...In America the law is king. — Thomas Paine · 1776If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine · 1776These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial and article as Freedom should not be highly rated. — Thomas Paine · 1776The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. — Thomas Paine · 1776He who dares not offend cannot be honest. — Thomas Paine · 1776All 29 quotes →Edward Coke5 quotes
The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose — Edward Coke · 1603They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. — Edward Coke · 1658Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. — Edward Coke · 1628Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. — Edward Coke · 1628How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. — Edward Coke · 1628Horatio Nelson3 quotes
England expects that every man will do his duty. — Horatio Nelson · 1805I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea. — Horatio Nelson · 1804You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil." — Horatio Nelson · 1813Diana, Princess of Wales2 quotes
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. — Diana, Princess of Wales · 1995I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. — Diana, Princess of Wales · 1995Brian Aldiss1 quote
Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs. — Brian Aldiss · 1969Edith Cavell1 quote
I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one. — Edith Cavell · 1915Frances Burney1 quote
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them. — Frances Burney · 1796H. Rider Haggard1 quote
Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885