Search results for Late 1590s (Elizabethan era)

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Thomas Jefferson

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Jane Austen

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

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Popular culture

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our long national nightmare is over.

Gerald Ford