J.W. Lord Quotes

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

Every class is unfit to govern.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.