Richard Rumbold quotes

“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 Rumbold

Source : 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 Rumbold

Source : 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 Rumbold

Source : "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.”
-- Richard Rumbold

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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”

“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“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

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”