Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.
Brougham.) People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.— filed under Ancestry
France. Page 48. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic.— filed under Ancestry
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it) are the natural securities for this transmission.— filed under Ancestry
Manners of the Present Age. Vol. II. Ch. XI. All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.— filed under Character
Regicide Peace. He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.— filed under Character
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.— filed under Charity
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. C.— filed under Vii
Workes. Second Week, Second Day. Pt. II. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.— filed under Contention
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.— filed under Countries-America
Young man, there is America-which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.— filed under Countries-America
There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.— filed under Country, Love Of
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!— filed under Decay
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.— filed under Delight
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered.— filed under Discontent
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!— filed under Disgrace
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.— filed under Example
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.— filed under Fidelity
with the Departed. You can never plan the future by the past.— filed under Futurity
Nov. 24, 1863. And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.— filed under Government
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.— filed under Government
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.— filed under Gratitude
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.— filed under Help
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.— filed under Judges
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.— filed under Justice
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.— filed under Justice
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.— filed under Learning
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.— filed under Liberty
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.— filed under Liberty
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.— filed under Liberty
The march of the human mind is slow.— filed under Mind
for his Book. Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.— filed under Occupations-Law
Portuguese. XIX. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.— filed under Occupations-Medicine
Statesmanship. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.— filed under Occupations-Shoemaking
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.— filed under Patience
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.— filed under Policy
France. Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.— filed under Policy
Dec. 22, 1802. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.— filed under Posterity
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.— filed under Prejudice
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.— filed under Xxv
America. The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.— filed under Xxv
S. France. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.— filed under Xxv
of the Colonists, etc. 1772. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. C.— filed under Rights
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.— filed under Shadows
The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.— filed under Stars
TRUST (PUBLIC). TRUST (PUBLIC). All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.— filed under Trust
France. To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.— filed under Trust
trans . Sc. 1. Maria Lovell's When bad men combine, the good must by one, an associate; else they will fall, one by one, an struggle. of the unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible— filed under Unity
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.— filed under Vice
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. aa.— filed under Virtue
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.— filed under Weakness