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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Italy to Language |
| Italy, 916 break-down in I. followed by fascism, 2046 contempt upon the lips of the manhood of … I., 2089 Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword, 915 is doing everything possible to disunite us, 1721 |
| I’ve been to the other side of the mountain, 577 heard the owl, 577 looked over and I’ve seen the promised land, 572 seen the elephant, 577 See also I and I’m |
| Jackass can kick a barn down, 268 impertinent letters from a j. like you, 302 |
| Jail sentence is no longer a dishonor, 221 |
| Japan is the one enemy, 2057 United States … was suddenly and deliberately attacked by … J., 2066 |
| Jaw-Jaw to j. is always better than to war-war, 1914 |
| Jaws of that which feeds them, 942 |
| Jay hasn’t got any more principle than a Congressman, 305 |
| Jay, John (1745–1829), 930 |
| Jay Treaty, 792 |
| Jealous are the gods, 1781 |
| Jefferson Day, 695 |
| Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. inscriptions, 178, 397, 667, 1062, 1844 |
| Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826), 43, 65, 823, 1719 epitaph, 546 Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, 546, 669 |
| Jenkins Hill, Washington, D.C., 161 |
| Jeopardy If the government is in j., 442 |
| Jests indebted to his memory for his j., 1175 |
| Jesus Christ, 916–921, 1059 life and death of J. are those of a god, 920 nativity of the young Lord J., 921 when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of J. C., 415 |
| Jewel give us that precious j. [liberty], and you may take every thing else, 1060 in the world comparable to learning, 1001 |
| Jeweled ideas, 129 |
| Jewish lawyers for Jews, 1015 |
| Jews Hitler attacked the J., 1749 |
| Joan of Arc, Saint (c. 1412–1431), 1400 |
| Job we will finish the j., 2051 |
| Jobs stuck to their j., 1356 |
| Jocund vein of j. malice, 24 |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, inscriptions, 96–98, 104, 1632, 1753 |
| John F. Kennedy International Airport, inscription, 1770 |
| Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908–1973), 1517–1518 |
| Johnston, Sarah Bush. See Lincoln, Sarah Bush (Johnston). |
| Join If you can’t lick ’em, j. ’em, 257 |
| Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1967 |
| Joke every time they make a j. it’s a law, 271 every time they make a law it’s a j., 271 |
| Jokes of Congress, 278 when he makes j., 1175 |
| Jones, John Paul (1747–1792), 65 funeral, 886 |
| Journalism in America, the President reigns … and J. governs, 1524 probing j., 1522 |
| Journey of a thousand miles, 1533 |
| Jove birth of Minerva from the brain of J., 813 |
| Joy, 922–923 comes from loving God and neighbor, 923 deepest j. that can be felt by man, 1963 I’m youth, I’m j., 2085 is not the same as pleasure or happiness, 923 is steady and abiding, like a fixed star, 923 Love … changes worthless things to j., 1132 |
| Joy’s soul lies in doing, 12 |
| Judas Iscariot men believe the vote of J. as good as that of Jesus Christ, 415 was nothing but a low, mean premature Congressman, 306 |
| Judge among the nations, 1956 [historian should be] an impartial j., 1748 history the final j. of our deeds, 7 of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents, 736 what to do, and how to do it, 936 Young men are fitter to invent, than to j., 2084 |
| Judged being j. not to have lived, 1088 by one standard, 933 society can be j. by entering its prisons, 1527 |
| Judges, 924–930 after they are seventy, 928 are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, 925 Constitution is what the j. say it is, 328 English j. look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum, 927 like people, may be divided roughly into four classes, 929 should be withdrawn from their bench, 926 who possess both head and a heart, 929 with head but no heart, 929 with heart but no head, 929 |
| Judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away, 1467 |
| Judgment, 931–937 act to the best of my j., 300 danger of the j., 605 Final j. upon them can only be recorded by history, 253 form a correct j. between them, 935 high court of history sits in j., 1604 historical j. upon a man, 1231 in j. weak, 2092 In the last analysis sound j. will prevail, 932 let j. run down as waters, 931 not measures of moral j., 627 of death, 934 on wrong conduct, 934 One cool j., 937 owes you, not his industry only, but his j., 280 slight, 2092 truly men of j., 1604 vote as my conscience and j. dictates, 262 which will then be pronounced on the uneducated, 505 |
| Judicial sooner or later turn into a j. one, 1429 |
| Judiciary, 938–944 bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government, 940 constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the j., 330 constitution of the federal j., 941 great object of my fear is the federal j., 942 independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing, 943 is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property, 328 of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners, 943 |
| June what is so rare as a day in J., 2072 |
| Juries can censor, suppress, and punish, 167 |
| Just cause, 1909 do that which is j., 956 God who presides over the destinies of nations, 1061 |
| Justice, 945–963 among nations might prevail, 1733 And then the j., / In fair round belly, 1158 blow against freedom and decency and j., 1746 cannot sleep forever, 1062 cruelty, not j., 959 degree to which j. is carried out, 957 delayed is j. denied, 954 deviate nothing from j., 956 even-handed j. to all, 961 God’s j. cannot sleep forever, 1062 in the life and conduct of the State, 963 is itself the great standing policy of civil society, 948 is never given; it is exacted, 960 is truth in action, 952 law secures equal j. to all alike, 1568 make this thy dwelling place, 955 Moderation in the pursuit of j. is no virtue, 581 no republic where there is no j., 946 no right where there is no j., 946 principle or quality of dealing fairly with others, 1364 single wrong to j., 958 though her dome [doom] she does prolong, 962 time will do us j., 1560 virtues of courage, honor, j., 58 voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest, 945 when expelled from other habitations, 955 without mercy if I fail to show mercy, 1490 |
| Justice Department. See United States, Department of Justice. |
| Justly Do j., and to love mercy, 947 |
| Kaiser Wilhelm. See Wilhelm II. |
| Katydid apostrophe to a k., 631 |
| Kean College of New Jersey, inscription, 1799 |
| Kennedy Center. See John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
| Kennedy International Airport. See John F. Kennedy International Airport. |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline (1929– ), 2007 |
| Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917–1963), 900 presidential election debates, 508 |
| Kennedy, Joseph Patrick (1888–1969), eulogy, 109 |
| Kentucky, 964 first rate land in K., 554 like that boy in K., who stubbed his toe, 399 politics—the damnedest in K., 964 |
| Kick the government around, 743 |
| Kicks lick the boot that k. them, 906 |
| Kill let’s k. all the lawyers, 1017 Thou shalt not k., 1804–1805 time to k., and a time to heal, 1810 |
| Kills it [truth] k. us when we betray it, 1833 |
| “Kind Words Can Never Die” (gospel hymn), 1727 |
| King acknowledge no k., 1748 conspiracies against their country or k., 1690 do that which befits a k., 956 half the zeal I serv’d my k., 705 Heroin is my shepherd, 852 refuses in any circumstances to fight for K. and Country, 2089 strangle the last k. with the guts of the last priest, 965 |
| King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–1968), 65 eulogy by Robert F. Kennedy, 1864, 1995 |
| Kingcraft, 1703 |
| Kings, 965 arguments that k. have made for enslaving the people, 1703 had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, 1495 having cut off the head of one of their k., 1598 last arguments to which k. resort, 1921 no rope to strangle k., 965 of cabbages—and k., 1811 of the earth, 1361 power of K., 1453 where k. have always stood, 1495 |
| Kiss betrayed with a k., 1921 |
| Kitchen can’t stand the heat, get out of the k., 1513 |
| Knew I k. something useful, 1606 |
| Knot cut the k. rather than unravel it, 1448 |
| Know all the people worth knowing in America, 1680 better to k. nothing, 966 not what he doesn’t k. that bothers me, 966 so much that ain’t so, 966 what you do k. and what you don’t, 486 where we are, 936 wisdom to k. what we did not k., 1604 |
| Knowing court doubt and darkness as the cost of k., 1127 his limitations, 1097 how to use the information you get, 486 is the measure of man, 1086 less that is false, 966 more that is new, 966 |
| Knowledge, 966–974 being necessary to good government, 55 Benefits of education and of useful k., 489 catharsis of k. and conviction, 67 comes, but wisdom lingers, 973 establishment for the increase and diffusion of k., 972 follow k. like a sinking star, 575 in his k. that man has found his greatness and his happiness, 972 increase and diffusion of k. among men, 1710 investment in k., 967 men who have neither the right nor the k., 747 no learning so excellent … as k. of laws, 1001 of her faults, 1460 Perplexity is the beginning of k., 968 rather than [want] of k., 2094 should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, 1663 subtracting from the sum of human k., 970 true k. is achieved, 1317 will forever govern ignorance, 969 without character, 1697 |
| Knows what he k. for sure just ain’t so, 966 |
| Korea, 65, 1968 |
| La Bruyère, Jean de (1645–1696), 362 |
| Labels I don’t believe in l., 1396 |
| Labor, 975–981 -doing machines, 981 grace to l. for, 1471 is prior to, and independent of, capital, 979 is the superior of capital, 979 long, 2022 press down upon the brow of l. this crown of thorns, 27 productive l., which is what gives money its value, 1203 quid pro quo for l., 986 robs l. of its bread, 1209 -saving machines, 981 system of l. where there can be a strike, 1776 understand what American l. means, 987 U.S. commissioner, 1541 |
| Labor unions, 982–987 have meant new dignity and pride to millions, 987 |
| Labor’s sheltered in l. house, 985 supped at l. table, 985 |
| Labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men, 2031 prevent the government from wasting the l. of the people, 727 under coercion to satisfy another’s desires, 1705 |
| Lady without whom I should never have survived, 2006 |
| Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier de, 897 |
| Laissez faire, 147, 414 |
| Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (1825–1893), 1447 |
| Lame Science without religion is l., 1662 |
| Lamp I have … but one l. by which my feet are guided, 571 I lift my l. beside the golden door, 1770 of experience, 571 one l. lights another, 1251 |
| Lance lay a l. in rest, 4 |
| Land Bless our l. with honourable industry, 1468 fruitfull and delightsome l., 189 I would not change my native l., 351 of lost content, 2093 of slander and scare, 62 of sly innuendo, 62 of smash and grab and anything to win, 62 of the dead, 1136 of the living, 1136 This is my own, my native l., 1310 was ours before we were the land’s, 475 without ruins … memories … history, 857 |
| Landlady for a l. considering a lodger, 1365 |
| Landmarks Great men are … l. in the state, 816 |
| Landscapes vulgarizing charming l. with hideous advertisements, 313 |
| Language of the heart, 922 separated by the same l., 539 those idiots [never did] understand their own l., 88 |
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