Colonial Sense: Society-Lifestyle: Colonial Quotes

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.	— Alexander Pushkin
Came but for friendship, and took away love.	— Thomas Moore
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. — Farewell Address, September 19, 1796	— George Washington
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?	— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can go and carry with you the jest of tories and scorn of whigs' the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve, and be forgotten! — Letter to the Officers of the Army, March 12, 1783	— George Washington
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.	— William Hull
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.	— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.	— John Wesley
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.	— Gustave Flaubert
Causeless distrust is able to drive deceit into a simple woman's head. — The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594	— Thomas Nashe
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.	— Francis Bacon
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.	— Francis Bacon
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.	— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is much easier kept than recovered.	— Thomas Paine
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves. — Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787	— Thomas Jefferson
Childhood is the sleep of reason.	— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — Defense of the Constitutions, 1787	— John Adams
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.	— Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.	— Francis Bacon
Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. — Letter to William Bradford, Jr., 1774	— James Madison
Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law. — Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814	— Thomas Jefferson
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. — Farewell Address, September 19, 1796	— George Washington
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.	— William Congreve
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.	— Thomas Jefferson
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.	— James Madison
Common opinions often conflict with common sense; for reason in most minds is no match for prejudices, a hydra whose heads grow faster than they can be cut off.	— Edward Wigglesworth
Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. — Congress, 1789	— Roger Sherman
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.	— Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.	— Thomas Jefferson
Conscience is the most sacred of all property. — Essay on Property, March 29, 1792	— James Madison
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.	— James Freeman Clarke
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities. — Federalist No. 34, January 4, 1788	— Alexander Hamilton
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.	— Benjamin Franklin
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. — Cato	— Joseph Addison
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. II, ch. 29	— Thomas Hobbes
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?	— Henry David Thoreau
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.	— John Quincy Adams
Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. — Speech at the State House, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776	— Samuel Adams
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.	— Henry Clay
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.	— William Congreve
Creditors have better memories than debtors.	— Benjamin Franklin
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.	— Henry David Thoreau
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.	— Daniel Boone