Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Author Index: Chaucer to Hegel
| Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343–1400), 447 |
| Chaumont, M. Le Ray de, letter from John Paul Jones, 848 |
| Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of (1694–1773), 361, 1184, 2087 |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874–1936), 1, 252, 345, 416, 1365 |
| Chevalier, Maurice-Auguste (1888–1972), 20 |
| The Chicago Times, editorial, 1487 |
| Children’s Aid Society, 46 |
| Choate, Rufus (1799–1859), 160 |
| Christopher Society, motto of, 448 |
| Chung Kuan. See Kuan Chung. |
| Church, Francis P. (1839–1906), 1660 |
| Church, Frank (1924–1984), quoting Nikita Khrushchev, 1257 |
| Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965), 15, 4041, 138, 165, 201, 234, 253, 394, 401–402, 417, 440, 528, 537–538, 854, 1277, 1294, 1333, 1353–1354, 1374, 1419, 1433, 1554, 1634, 1652–1653, 1716, 1861, 1870, 1913–1914, 1958, 1991, 2004, 2046–2047, 2051–2056, 2088–2089 eightieth birthday address, 1276 letter to Herbert Morrison, 1525 quoting Eleuthérios Venizélos, 529 |
| Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 B.C.), 21, 28, 191, 215, 581, 712, 795, 1000 |
| Cicero, Quintus Tullius (c. 102–43 B.C.), 1543 |
| Clark, Esther Mary (fl. 1906), 683 |
| Clark, Champ (James Beauchamp Clark) (1850–1921), 261, 301, 606 |
| Clark, Ramsey (1927– ), 318, 360 |
| Clark, Thomas Campbell (1899–1977), 832 |
| Clausewitz, Karl von (1780–1831), 1915–1917 |
| Clay, Henry (1777–1852), 185, 267, 614, 1367, 1503 |
| Clemenceau, Georges (1841–1929), 2–3, 47, 586, 1954 quoting Adolf Lasson, 1349 quoting Matthias Erzberger, 864 |
| Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Twain, Mark. |
| Cleveland, Grover (1837–1908), 139, 1670, 1806 inaugural address (1885), 796 inaugural address (1893), 777 letter to William F. Vilas, 1488 |
| Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819–1861), 1805 |
| Cobb, Irwin Shrewsbury (1876–1944), 1970 |
| Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 10th Baronet (1802–1880), 2030 |
| Cockrell, Francis Marion (1834–1915), 261 |
| Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634), 859, 1001, 1173 |
| Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (1619–1683), 1788 |
| Colfax, Schuyler, (1823–1885), 476 |
| Colvin, John B., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1009 |
| Comenius, John Amos (1592–1670), 1481 |
| Commager, Henry Steele (1902–1998), 1622 |
| Confucius (551–479 B.C.), 1317, 1635 |
| Conkling, Roscoe (1829–1888), 1447 |
| Connally, John B., Jr. (1917–1993), 418 |
| Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832–1907), 294 |
| Conwell, Russell Herman (1843–1925), 817, 1201 |
| Cook, Daniel John (1926– ), 1817 |
| Coolidge, Calvin (1872–1933), 73, 140, 319–320, 797–799, 951, 1138, 1355, 1375–1376, 1775, 1846, 2025 inaugural address (1925), 798 |
| Cooper, Thomas (1759–1839), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 727 |
| Coray, A., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 940 |
| Cortissoz, Royal (1869–1948), 1107 |
| Cosway, Maria Cecilia Louisa Hadfield (1759–1838), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 687 |
| Cousins, Norman (1915–1990), 1959 |
| Cox, Harvey G. (1929– ), 389 |
| Craighill, Edward A., 1812 |
| Crayon, Geoffrey (pseudonym of Washington Irving). See Irving, Washington. |
| Creighton, Mandell (1843–1901), letter from Lord Acton, 1443–1444 |
| Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de (pseudonym J. Hector St. John) (1735–1813), 48 |
| Crockett, David (Davy) (1786–1836), 262 |
| Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), 1035 |
| Cross, Mary Ann Evans. See Eliot, George. |
| Culbertson, Ely (1891–1955), 1318 |
| Curley, James Michael (1874–1958), quoting Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, 1021 |
| Curran, John Philpot (1750–1817), 1054 |
| Cushing, Richard James, Cardinal (1895–1970), 1278 |
| Dana, John Cotton (1856–1929), 1799 |
| Daniels, Josephus (1862–1948), letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 5 |
| Danielson, George E. (1915– ), 1394 |
| Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 749, 1211, 1771 |
| Darion, Joe (1917– ), 459 |
| Darrow, Clarence Seward (1857–1938), 1555 |
| Davidon, William (1927– ), 126 |
| Davis, Jefferson (1808–1889), 760 |
| Day, Clarence Shepard, Jr. (1874–1935), 129 |
| de Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie (1890–1970), 2039 |
| De La Motta, Jacob (1789–1845), letter from James Madison, 552 |
| de Tocqueville Alexis. See Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de. |
| De Vries, Peter (1910–1993), 701–702 |
| Debs, Eugene Victor (1855–1926), 673 |
| Decatur, Stephen (1779–1820), 346 |
| Dederich, Charles (1913– ), 1825 |
| Degler, Carl N. (1921– ), 49 |
| Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.), 1677 |
| Dennis, Patrick (pseudonym of Edward Everett Tanner III, 1921–1976), 1094 |
| Depew, Chauncey Mitchell (1834–1928), 897, 1387 |
| Dewar, Thomas R., 1st Baronet (1864–1930), 1777 |
| Dewey, John (1859–1952), 639 |
| Dickens, Charles (1812–1870), 231, 380, 1002, 1465, 1526, 1818 |
| Diderot, Denis (1713–1784), 965 |
| Dies, Martin (1900–1972), 249 |
| Diogenes Laertius (fl. c. 200), 482 |
| Dirksen Everett McKinley (1896–1969), 288, 800 |
| Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), 176, 254, 314, 485, 872, 952, 1113, 1164, 1238, 1264, 1279–1280, 1368, 1377, 1631, 1769, 1778–1779, 1943, 2090 letters to: Brydges Willyams, Sarah, 1319 Grey de Wilton, Lord, 713 |
| Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis. |
| Dogood, Silence (pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin), 674 |
| Dolan, John Terry (1950–1986), 150 |
| Donald, Alexander, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 358 |
| Donne, John (1572–1631), 134 |
| Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich (1821–1881), 432, 1527 |
| Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861), 1378 reply from Abraham Lincoln, 1639 |
| Douglas, William Orville (1898–1980), 141, 167, 442, 541, 1015, 1144, 1529, 1613–1614, 1717, 1890–1891 |
| Douglass, Frederick (c. 1817–1895), 443, 1575, 1599–1601 |
| Dowling, Richard William (1838–1867), 1987 |
| Downs, Robert Bingham (1903–1991), letter from Dwight David Eisenhower, 640 |
| Dowson, Ernest (1867–1900), 460 |
| Draper, Theodore (1912– ), 1445 |
| Dryden, John (1631–1700), 636, 1960 |
| du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel (1739–1817), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 490 |
| Dufief, N. G., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 170 |
| Dulles, John Foster (1888–1959), 1961 |
| Dumas, Alexandre, the Elder (1802–1870), 1862 |
| Dumas, Mr., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1322 |
| Dunne, Finley Peter (1867–1936), 427, 1583 |
| Duponceau, Pierre E. (1760–1844), letter from James Madison, 738 |
| Durant, Ariel (1898–1981), 1320 |
| Durant, Will (1885–1981), 206, 1320, 1646 |
| Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817), 1210 |
| Earle, George Howard (1890–1974), 250 |
| Eaton, Anne S., 684 |
| Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882–1944), 2076 |
| Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758), 1055 |
| Edwards, Sherman (1919–1981), 273 |
| Edwards, Tryon (1809–1894), 1830 |
| Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich (1891–1967), 542 |
| Ehrmann, Max (1872–1945), 1114 |
| Einstein, Albert (1879–1955), 124, 1603, 1661–1662 |
| Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890–1969), 403, 608, 550, 640, 801, 849, 913, 924, 1321, 1420, 1489, 1671, 1712, 1739, 1878–1879, 1918, 2070 farewell address (1961), 1177 letter to Everett E. (“Swede”) Hazlett, 1178 quoting Alexis de Tocqueville, 829 State of the Union message (1958), 1772 |
| Eliot, Charles William (1834–1926), 130, 1438 |
| Eliot, George (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross, 1819–1880), 509, 1228, 1692 |
| Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965), 579 |
| Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt (1791–1858), 1532 |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882), 186, 315, 557, 597, 641, 753, 818, 873, 1003–1004, 1086, 1194, 1234, 1379, 1528, 1686, 1780, 1789, 1819–1820 |
| Engels, Friedrich (1820–1895), 242, 1654, 1757 |
| Erasmus, Desiderius (1465–1536), 451 |
| Ervin, Sam (1896–1985), quoting Robert Louis Stevenson, 1104 quoting Shakespeare, 705 |
| Ervine, St. John Greer (1883–1971), 1165 |
| Erzberger, Matthias (1875–1921), 864 |
| Euripides (c. 485–406 B.C.), 1699 |
| Evans, Mary Ann. See Eliot, George. |
| Everett, Edward (1794–1865), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 725 |
| Fairless, Benjamin Franklin (1890–1962), 142 |
| Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount (c. 1610–1643), 175 |
| Faraday, Michael (1791–1867), 1790 |
| Farber, Barry, 1655 |
| Faulkner, William (1897–1962), 354, 1145 |
| Feather, William (1889–1981), 486 |
| The Federalist No. 14, on the American people, 82 No. 30, on taxation, 1791 No. 37, on government, 765 No. 43, on elections, 512 on government, 782 No. 47, on government, 790 No. 49, the Constitution of the United States, 335 No. 51, on government, 739 No. 62, on law, 1012 No. 71, on duty, 468 No. 73, on power, 1446 No. 75, on foreign policy, 615 No. 85, on government, 721 on perfection, 1348 |
| Fields, James Thomas (1817–1881), 601 |
| Fish, Williston (1858–1939), 192 |
| Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart (1910–1985), 2092 |
| Fitzroy, Edward Algernon (1869–19??), quoting Benjamin Disraeli, 1280 |
| Flexner, Abraham (1866–1959), 1919 |
| Forbes, Malcolm S. (1919–1990), quoting Socrates, 195 |
| Ford, Gerald Rudolph (1913– ), 74, 255, 264, 282, 404, 527, 543, 714–715, 761, 889, 1302, 1490–1492, 1831, 1863, 1880, 1920 quoting Thomas Henry Huxley, 263 |
| Foss, Sam Walter (1858–1911), 685 |
| Foullon, Joseph François (1717–1789), 1347 |
| France, Anatole (pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, 1844–1924), 487 |
| Francis, Saint, of Assisi (c. 1181–1226), 1466 |
| Francis, James Allan (1864–1928), 916 |
| Frankfurter, Felix (1882–1965), 551, 1005, 1998 |
| Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), 265, 321–323, 395, 674, 703, 716, 890–91, 967, 1036, 1056–1057, 1146, 1240, 1460, 1593, 2005 letters to: Brillon, Madame, 2071 Galloway, Joseph, 1560 Hartley, David, 347 Mecom, Mrs. Jane, 1551 Vaughan, Benjamin, 608, 953 Washington, George, 59 |
| Friedman, Milton (1912– ), 143 |
| Frohman, Charles (1860–1915), quoting Sir James Matthew Barrie, 988 |
| Fromm, Erich (1900–1980), 933 |
| Frost, Holloway Halstead (1889–1935), 1769 |
| Frost, Robert (1874–1963), 475, 860 |
| Fulbright, James William (1905–1995), 50, 125, 433, 580, 1030, 1170, 1281, 1868 quoting Erasmus, 451 |
| Fuller, Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli (1810–1850), 1680 |
| Fuller Melville Weston (1833–1910), 717 |
| Gallatin, Albert (1761–1849), 1202 |
| Galloway, Joseph (c. 1731–1803), letter from Benjamin Franklin, 1560 |
| Galsworthy, John (1867–1933), 4 |
| Gandhi, Indira (1917–1984), 1303 |
| Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, Mahatma (1869–1948), 1021 memorial inscription of “The Seven Sins,” 1697 |
| García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936), 14 |
| Gardner, John William (1912–2002), 16–17, 568, 1025 |
| Garfield, James Abram (1831–1881), 718, 1666, 1824 letter to William Babcock Hazen, 510 |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot. See Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquis of. |
| Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), 173 |
| Gay, John (1685–1732), 1871 |
| Gellius, Aulus (c. 123–c. 165), 1832 |
| Genêt, Edmond-Charles-Édouard (1763–1834), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1809 |
| George, David Lloyd. See Lloyd George, David. |
| Gérard, Rosemonde (1871–1953), 1130 |
| Gerry, Elbridge (1744–1814), letters from Thomas Jefferson, 382, 1493 |
| Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794), 324, 1647 |
| Gibran, Kahlil (1883–1931), 642, 766, 836, 968, 1131, 1229, 1366, 1833 |
| Gilliam, Shelton, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 802 |
| Giovanni, Fra, 1467 |
| Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898), 290, 325, 363, 530, 954, 1294, 1790 |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832), 666, 719, 877, 1813 |
| Goggan, John Patrick. See Patrick, John. |
| Goldwater, Barry Morris (1909–1998), 581 |
| Gompers, Samuel (1850–1924), 982–983, 1983 telegram from Calvin Coolidge, 1775 |
| Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822–1885), 467, 1687 |
| Graves, Robert (1895–1985), 2092 |
| Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), 1216 |
| Greeley, Horace (1811–1872), 1594 |
| Green, Thomas Jefferson (1801–1863), 32 |
| Greene, Graham (1904–1991), 1656 |
| Greenspan, Alan (1926– ), 144 |
| Grenville, George (1712–1770), 720 |
| Grew, Joseph Clark (1880–1965), 2057 |
| Grey, Mary Elizabeth, Countess (177?–1861), letter from Sydney Smith, 1947 |
| Grey de Wilton, Arthur Edward Holland Grey Grosvenor, Viscount (1833–1885), letter from Benjamin Disraeli, 713 |
| Griffin, William (1897–1949), 2046 |
| Grimes, James Wilson (1816–1872), letter from Abraham Lincoln, 511 |
| Griswold, Alfred Whitney (1906–1963), 168, 898 |
| Gromyko, Andrei (1909–1989), 1708 |
| Guest, Edgar Albert (1881–1959), 1841 |
| Guren, David. See Ben-Gurion, David. |
| Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1892–1975), 1721 |
| Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909), 289, 899, 1434 |
| Hale, Nathan (1755–1776), 1304, 1561 |
| Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882–1959), 819 |
| Hamilton, Alexander (1755–1804), 762, 865, 1058, 1334, 1395 The Federalist, 468 (no. 71); 615 (no. 75); 721 (no. 85); 1348 (no. 85); 1446 (no. 73); 1791 (no. 30) letter from George Washington, 1192 |
| Hamilton, Edith (1867–1963), 643, 1087 |
| Hammarskjöld, Dag (1905–1961), 1857 |
| Hammond, Charles, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 941, 1246 |
| Hand, Learned (1872–1961), 258, 1059 |
| Harding, David, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1283 |
| Harding, Warren Gamaliel (1865–1923), 767 inaugural address (1921), 1999 letter from Will Rogers, 1385 |
| Harington, Sir John (1560?–1612), 1826 |
| Harlan, John Marshall (1883–1911), 326 |
| Harper, Robert Goodloe (1765–1825), 804 |
| Harrington, James (1611–1677), 991 |
| Harris, Sidney Justin (1917–1986), 868 |
| Harrison, William Henry (1773–1841), 763 message from Oliver Hazard Perry, 518 |
| Hartley, David (1705–1757), letter from Benjamin Franklin, 347 |
| Hastings, Daniel O. (1874–1966), 1447 |
| Hatsell, John (1742–1820), 892 |
| Havard, William (1710–1778), 644 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864), letter from Herman Melville, 1272 |
| Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822–1893), 1380 |
| Haynes, George Henry (1866–1947), quoting William Ewart Gladstone, 290 |
| Haywood, William Dudley (1869–1928), letter from Joe Hill, 984 |
| Hazen, William Babcock (1830–1887), letter from James Abram Garfield, 510 |
| Hazlett, Everett E. (“Swede”) (1892–1958), letter from Dwight David Eisenhower, 1178 |
| Healey, Thomas F., 1217 |
| Heatter, Gabriel (1890–1972), 1242 |
| Heber, Reginald (1783–1826), 1147 |
| Hébert, F. Edward (1901–1979), quoting García Lorca, 14 |
| Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831), 570, 856 |