Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Prophets to Reactionary
Prophetspersecuted they the p., 102Proportion
inverse p. to our creative capacity, 1681Propriety
decency and p. of conduct, 884
of having a Congress, 1496
of the nation must be startled, 1575
See also ImproprietyProsper
[Fortune] suffers not the same man to p. for ever, 637
neither man nor nation can p. unless … thought is … taken for the future, 312Prosperity
-at-any-price, 58
general p., 1644
instruments of our rising p., 410
on these alone a stable p. can be founded, 840
partners in p., 1667
plain way of life … promotes thrift and p., 796
time of p., 1468
will rise upward … through the ranks, 479Prostitution
victims of legal p., 1210Protect
the people, 292Protest
against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty, 1144
human race / Has climbed on p., 1695
only effective p., 1890
politics of p. is shutting out the process of thought, 441
Ten Commandments of P., 441Protestant
Hitler attacked me and the P. church, 1749Protests
series of p., 1717Protocol
alcohol, and Geritol, 1858Proud
and unbending in honest defeat, 1469
man, / Dress’d in a little brief authority, 1159
men asking / Not to be safe, but free, 1474
men compete for nameless graves, 1110
of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant, 54
that I was a free man first, 1396
that I’m a politician, 1405
too p. to pray, 53
undying thought in man, 593Providence
consequences with P., 1551
playing P., 1361
some secret design of P., 2045
task for which P. has chosen me, 821
trust from P., 280
unwilling to leave anything to P., 1361
will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring, 701Providential
token of p. agency, 1344Prudence
[forbids] … paying our own money for unexplained projects, 802
there is also a false, reptile p., 596Prudent
archers … take aim much higher than their mark, 825
progressive who is p., 1396
without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different, 1396Prying
lost as much as we gained by p. into that matter, 974Psalm of brotherhood, 1693“The Psalm of the Addict,” 852Psychology
[has not yet found] a sensible soul, 111Public
authority, just cause, right motive, 1909
awareness of the p. attitude, 1406
chore, 1423
consider himself as p. property, 1562
courage to resist p. pressure, 1604
Credit, 813
danger of disturbing the p. tranquillity, 335
discover in the p. felicity the latent causes of decay, 1647
duties, 1764
emploiment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness, 842
expenditure, 812
good, 1561, 1604, 1643
Honour and Gain of p. Posts, 1565
interest, 1511, 1567
married and endowed the p., 1163
men have no sure tenure, 1563
money, 799
no right to strike against the p. safety, 1775
officer without vices, 820
passions, 335
private rights and p. happiness, 82
sentiment is everything, 1557
servant third, 1396
starving the p. sector, 17
taste, 1803
vote themselves largesse from the p. treasury, 424
When a man assumes a p. trust, 1562
when p. men indulge themselves in abuse, 1170Public affairs, 1551–1552
indifference to p. a., 565
never to turn aside in p. a. through views of private interest, 1551
no interest in p. a., 1552
some part in the direction of p. a, 975
take no further part in p. a., 1246
Those who are selected for a limited time to manage p. a., 796
views felt in p. a., 221Public debt. See Debt.Public life
born with a love for p. l., 1423
course of p. l., 1560
great many men in p. l., 1569
hypocrite in p. l., 1976
in all my years of p. l. 1564
quit p. l. at seventy, 115
retain p. l. at a sacrifice to my own self-respect, 115Public office
anything, that is, except p. o., 1602
refusal … to sacrifice … integrity … for the sake of winning p. o., 1018Public officials
right to criticise their own p. o., 171Public opinion, 1553–1559
force of reason and p. o., 737
greatest enemy that ever confronted man, 1555
overflows eventually into national behaviour, 1558
polls to tell me what is right, 1490
Private opinion creates p. o., 1558
See also OpinionPublic service, 1022, 1560–1571
grown cynical from long [p.] s., 295
is but honorable exile from one’s family and affairs, 842
never profited from p. s., 1564
not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit 1568
See also Oath of OfficePublication
consequences of their p., 1669Publicity, 1572–1573
desire for p. and acclaim, 1406
is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases, 1572
is therefore as essential to honest administration 1573
show how it can bear discussion and p., 1668Published
posthumously, 1285
vast number of titles which are p., 169Publishers
build the fleet, 129Pull
The other is p., 1412Pulpit
bully p., 1508
politics and the p. are terms that have little agreement, 1417Pulpits
flame with righteousness, 829Punish
the wrongdoers, 211Puppets
political p., 1455Puritans, 1574
there were all kinds of P., 1574Purpose
constancy of p., 1779Purse
Delay works always for the man with the longest p., 1013
empties his p. into his head, 967
You can’t make a silk p. out of a sow’s ear, 1084Push
One of two things mainly conducive to success, 1412Pusillanimous
our decisions, however p., 389
pussyfooting, 1042Puzzle
that’s the great puzzle, 1678Quakers. See Society of Friends.Qualifications
for the office, 1499
for the position which he seeks, 301Quality
of the Nation’s life, 2028Quarrel
in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing, 2050
national q., 1929
which has already been settled in principle, 2050Queen
sent word to a Throne, 2014Question
But this momentous q., 1700
is … whether you can make words mean different things, 2019
is … which is to be master, 2019
judicial one [question], 1429
political q. in the United States … sooner or later turn[s] into a judicial one, 1429
position on almost every public q. was either mischievous or ridiculous, 1274
what is the q., 989Questions
all q. in the earth and out of it, 700Quick
comradeship of letters, 2081
in temper, 2092
to act, 2092Quicksand
of racial injustice, 1693Quiet
and dignified simplicity, 108Quincy, Dorothy (fl. 1738), 1090Quit
Americans never q., 80
don’t you q., 1358Quixote
of the world, 533R, means right, 1226Race, 462, 1575–1580
between education and catastrophe, 858
elevate the r. at once, 1142
hatred, 119
inferior r. are to be treated, 1703
issue of r. could benefit from a period of “benign neglect,” 1579
Neither r. nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy, 1895
no American is held down by r. or color, 1343
privileges of citizenship regardless of r., 1901
riders in a r. do not stop short when they reach the goal, 1115
salvation for a r., 960
set one r. against another, 1482Races
didn’t bother the Americans, 81
enslave all r., 1482
nation of many nationalities, many r., 1482
oppressed of all lands and r., 960
physical difference between the white and black r., 1578
social and political equality of the white and black r., 1578
two r., equally free, cannot live in the same government, 1576Racial
discrimination, 117, 1896
injustice, 1894
quicksand of r. injustice, 1693
rhetoric fades, 1579
stigma, 1877Racism
in reverse at its worst, 1577Racket
mad r. and the hazards of the forum, 376
that will stop the r., 1912Radical
Is not every man sometimes a r. in politics?, 315
to remove all that is bad [in our constitution], 314
Youth should be r., 157Radicals
are the men past middle life, 2100
Two r., one of whom is a deputy, 1031
when r. criticise, 1642Rain
snow, nor r., nor heat, nor gloom of night, 1439
without thunder and lightning, 443Rainbow
reverent feeling for the r., 974Rains
restrain these immoderate r., 1473Raisin
like a r. in the sun, 461Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?–1618), 119Rally
round the flag, boys, 601Rare
as a day in June, 2072Rat
Anyone can r., 1374Rather
be a hound dog and bay at the moon, 295
be a one-term President, 1885
be a servant in the House of the Lord, 699
be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet, 1118
be ashes than dust, 1118
be doing something else, 2023
be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty, 1063
be Red than dead, 128
be right than be President, 1503
belong to a poor nation that was free, 1081
do the good that is straight under our noses, 1361
have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President, 1949
keep my promises to other politicians than to God, 1408
light a candle than curse the darkness, 448
lose in a cause that will some day win, 1994
my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than … be stifled by dry-rot, 1118
start a family than finish one, 121
starve than sell our national honor, 1303
the sun and not the moon, 1222
than … / Preserve his little life … / And never raise a rebel cry, 4
walk, 1498
you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal, 1543Rational
more r. is overcome by the less r., 677Rats
are still around, 1688
peeping through bunches of oakum [English judges], 927Ravages
of industrial progress, 16Rayburn, Sam Taliaferro (1882–1961), 2099Reach
man’s r. should exceed his grasp, 1840Reactionary
as the multiplication table, 2025