Unity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
For how can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 69.
For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant, and a homicide: One rais'd in blood, and one in blood establish'd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 245.
I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years.— Shakespeare — Pericles. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 84.
O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 103.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 12.
A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Tyranny. The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Tyranny. Unbelief is blind.— MILTON — Comus. L. 519.
More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
Two Souls in one, two Hearts into one Heart!— DU BARTAS — Divine Weekes and Workes. First week, sixth day. L. 1,057.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.— VON MUNCH BELLINGHAUSEN Ingomar, the Barbarian. Act II.
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— BURKE — Thoughts on the Cause of the
Present Discontent. I never use the word "nation" in speaking word are not of the United States. I always use the "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a equal nation but a union, a confederacy of and sovereign States.— J. C. CALHOUN — To Oliver Dyer.
Jan. 1, 1849. The Constitution in all its provisions looks of into an indestructible union composed of indestructible States.— SALMON P. CHASE — Decision in Texas
vs. White. See WERDEN'S Private Life and Public Services of Salmon P. Chase. P. 664. Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. GEO. COLMAN (the Younger)-Broad Grins. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.— JOHN DICKINSON — The Liberty Song.
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, Because the one so near the other is.— GEORGE ELIOT — Brother and Sister. Pt. I. St. 1.
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — At Signing of the
Declaration of Independence. July 4, 1776. God Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky : Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!— O. W. HOLMES — Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline. St. 7.
There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love; Brothers in peace, not rivals in command. L.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 241.
Pope's trans.
Etenim omnes artes, quæ ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quâdam inter se continentur. All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some relationship.— CICERO — Oratio Pro Licinio Archia. I.
Neque est ullum certius amicitiæ vinculum, quam consensus et societas consiliorum et voluntatum. There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.— CICERO — Oratio Pro Cnxo Plancio. II.
Die Treue warnt vor drohenden Verbrechen, Die Rachgier spricht von den begangenen. Truth warns of threatening crimes, Malice speaks of those which were committed.— SCHILLER — Don Carlos. III. 4. 124.
Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst. A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.— GOETHE — Faust. Prolog im Himmel.
Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne. He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.— PASCAL — Lettres Provinciales. II.
Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort, Verein und leite! Bessrer Hort. Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.— GOETHE — Sprüche in Reimen. III.
Seid einig-einig-einig. Be united-united-united.— SCHILLER — Wilhelm Tell. IV. 2. 158.