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Quotations: Quote of the day sample
January 1
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
[Cuban president Fidel Castro, speaking in Havana on 1 January 1961, the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.]
January 2
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
[Cardinal Richelieu establishes the Académie Française, 2 January 1635.]
January 3
As my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly... Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' It was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.'
[Archaeologist Howard Carter, recalling his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen on 3 January 1924.]
January 4
I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.
[William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons, when asked by Charles I for the whereabouts of five MPs the King wished to arrest, 4 January 1642.]
January 5
How could they tell?
[US humorist Dorothy Parker, on being told of the death of former US President Calvin Coolidge on 5 January 1933.]
January 6
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom to worship God, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
[US President Franklin D Roosevelt: speech to Congress, 6 January 1941.]
January 7
When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying within my heart.
[Queen Mary I mourns the loss of England's last French possession, recaptured on 7 January 1558.]
January 8
What we demand in this war is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in.
[US President Woodrow Wilson launches his 'Fourteen Points' for ending World War I: speech to Congress, 8 January 1918.]
January 9
His taxes now prove His great love for the people, So wisely they're managed To starve the poor souls.
[Songwriter Charles Morris (1745–1838) celebrates the introduction by British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger of income tax at two shillings (10p) in the pound on 9 January 1799, as a temporary measure to raise finance for the Napoleonic Wars.]
January 10
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
[Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet 'Common Sense', 10 January 1776.]
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