Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horatio Nelson

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Horatio Nelson

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Horatio Nelson

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Horace

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Horace

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Horace Mann

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

Horace Mann

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

Horace Mann

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.

Homer

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

Homer

The long historian of my country's woes.

Homer

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Homer

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

Homer

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

Homer

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Jerry Jones

If I can't turn around and see home, I've gone too far. My wife (Connie) has been on lots of vacations -- Alaska, Hawaii; but she's gone on her own. I don't like to leave Pulaski County very much.

If I couldn't have got in one place I would have went another way -- there was no way I wasn't going to serve my country -- there was just no way.

If he doesn't do it, then his country will face sanctions and become very vulnerable. If he does do it, then he will immediately get international support. The crucial question is whether he has the support of the military chiefs.

If his team is not on board, how is the country going to be on board?

Samuel Johnson

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

If he plays to his potential, I know he's worked hard to improve his game, we won't be any weaker than last year. We're counting on him to round out the starting five.

Michelle Wie

I felt really good on the front nine, but just couldn't get anything going on the back nine, ... I still finished under par, so I guess that counts for something.

If I hire any of these people, I would resign as county commissioner.

Patricia Williams

I called my wife and said, 'I took the cross country job,'

I'd have to say that in the US, even though there's widespread resistance, we just haven't seen the huge numbers that some of these countries have. That may still be to come if shipments were to start, for example.

Michael Chertoff

I can't tell you what the numbers are going to be, but I think we need to prepare the country for what's coming.

I can't tell you that we can't make the target. We won't be able to say until August, when the high-transmission season resumes. Then we'll know how many countries still have polio.

Jim Calhoun

I can probably count the number of seniors days I have left on one hand.

I couldn't count eight votes. I needed eight votes so I withdrew it.

I count on the collaboration of embassies and consulates that send videos about the Arabs.

Samuel Coleridge

I counted two and seventy stenches, / All well defined, and several stinks!

Robert Scoble

I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.

I don't think the country knows how good he is. I mean this in the most complimentary way: He's not a guy who grabs the rim. He doesn't do it all with athleticism. He does it with skill and instincts and competitive fire. He's for real.

Brenda Jackson

I don't think there is any place in Stark County or Summit County like this.