We've been running our Daily Colonial Quote feature for some time now, and the thought crossed our collective mind that some of these quotes may be of interest to you, Faithful Reader, in some other context than a randomized daily display: perhaps to be included in a report, an essay, presentation, or whatever.
Therefore, we decided to open up our collection of quotes to all, searchable by author or keyword. We hope you find them useful.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington
It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
Christopher Gadsden
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself.
James Barron
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
Zebulon Pike
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My god! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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