Richard Rumbold quotes
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“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
-- Richard RumboldSource : On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1
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“It is for all men that come into the world once to die; and after death the judgment! And since death is a debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.”
-- Richard RumboldSource : Colonel Richard Rumbold's last speech at the Market-Cross of Edinburgh, tei.it.ox.ac.uk. June 26, 1685.
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“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”
-- Richard RumboldSource : "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.
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“None comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”
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“I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?”
-- Richard Rumbold
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.
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