John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miscellaneous. (continued) |
| 8299 |
| Oh, it ’s a snug little island! A right little, tight little island. |
| Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841): The snug little Island. |
| 8300 |
| And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. |
| Robert Treat Paine (1772–1811): Adams and Liberty. |
| 8301 |
| They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. |
| Roger B. Taney (1777–1864): The Dred Scott Case (Howard, Rep. 19, P. 407). |
| 8302 |
| To make a mountain of a mole-hill. |
| Henry Ellis (1777–1869): Original Letters. Second Series, p. 312. |
| 8303 |
| March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom’s shield, And heaven is shining o’er us. |
| B. E. O’Meara (1778–1836): March to the Battle-Field. |
| 8304 |
| Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. |
| Stephen Decatur (1779–1820): Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816. |
| 8305 |
| Here shall the Press the People’s right maintain, Unaw’d by influence and unbrib’d by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg’d to Religion, Liberty, and Law. |
| Joseph Story (1779–1845): Motto of the “Salem Register.” (Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127.) |
| 8306 |
| Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. |
| Robert Emmet (1780–1803): Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, September, 1803. |
| 8307 |
| Imitation is the sincerest flattery. |
| C. C. Colton (1780–1832): The Lacon. |