Search results for Attributed to Latin Proverbs

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

National honor is national property of the highest value.

James Monroe

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams, John Dryden

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Andrew Jackson

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Henry Ford

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Jane Austen

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

James K. Polk

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Robert E. Lee

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore