Thomas Dunn English quotes

“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”
-- Thomas Dunn English

Source : Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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“Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?”
-- Thomas Dunn English

Source : 'Ben Bolt'

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“When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.”
-- Thomas Dunn English

Source : Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”

“The basis of a democratic state is liberty”

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

“Relationships are monuments build on lies”

“Monuments are for the living, not the dead.”

Source : Frank Wedekind (2013). “Spring Awakening”, p.39, A&C Black

“The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.”

“I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”