Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Author Index: London to Schopenhauer
| London, Jack (John Griffith London) (1876–1916), credo, 1118 |
| Long, Huey Pierce (1893–1935), 419, 1341–1342, 1973 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882), 371 |
| Longstreet, James (1821–1904), letter from Robert Edward Lee, 1900 |
| Longworth, Nicholas (1869–1931), 2008 |
| Lorca, Federico García. See García Lorca. |
| Louis IX, King of France (1226–1270), 956 |
| Louis, Joe (1914–1981), 1651 |
| Lounsbury, Charles (pseudonym of Williston Fish). See Fish, Williston. |
| Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891), 587, 1251–1252, 1271, 1838, 2072 |
| Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (39–65), 638 |
| Luce, Clare Boothe (1903–1987), 625 |
| Lucian (b. c. 120, d. after 180), 1748 |
| Luther, Martin (1483–1546), 239 |
| Lyautey, Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve (1854–1934), 1815 |
| MacArthur, Douglas (1880–1964), 80, 247, 663, 1121, 1258, 1469, 1649, 1672, 1726–1728, 1874, 1930, 1968, 2058–2061 quoting Samuel Ullman, 2099 |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington Lord (1800–1859), 387, 736–737, 781, 1151, 1536, 1584, 1904 letter to Henry Stephens Randall, 334, 420–421, 1139, 1847 |
| MacDonell, Sir John (1846–1921), 957 |
| Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527), 825, 1011, 1449 |
| Mackinder, Sir Halford John (1861–1947), 2041 |
| Mackintosh, Sir James (1765–1832), 1038 |
| MacLeish, Archibald (1892–1982), 81, 463, 1742, 1853, 1966 |
| Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton (1894–1986), 438, 531 |
| Madison, James (1751–1836), 292, 523, 1450, 1500, 1521, 1548, 1854, 1932 The Federalist, 82 (no. 14); 335 (no. 49); 512 (no. 43); 739 (no. 51); 765 (no. 37); 782 (no. 43); 790 (no. 47); 1012 (no. 62) letters from Thomas Jefferson, 667, 726, 1298 letters to: Barry, William Taylor, 496–497, 969 De La Motta, Jacob, 552 Duponceau, Pierre E., 738 Jefferson, Thomas, 1931 |
| Magee, John Gillespie, Jr. (1922–1941), 603 |
| Magnan, Antoine, 604 |
| Maistre, Joseph Marie de (1753–1821), 740 |
| Mallory, George Leigh (1886–1924), 1741 |
| Mann, Horace (1796–1859), 498, 1119, 1875 |
| Mao Zedong (1893–1976), 1451, 1933 |
| Marcus Aurelius (121–180), 1301 |
| Marcy William Learned (1786–1857), 1314 |
| Margaret of Angoulême (also known as Margaret of Navarre) (1492–1549), 844 |
| Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1755–1793), 1183, 1347 |
| Markham, Edwin (1852–1940), 136, 293, 1108, 1149 |
| Marquis, Donald Robert Perry (1878–1937), 24, 121, 833 |
| Marron, Paul Henri, 886 |
| Marsh, Amos, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 405 |
| Marshall, George Catlett (1880–1959), 2062 |
| Marshall, John (1755–1835), 1762, 1798 |
| Marshall, Peter (1902–1967), 106, 1636 |
| Marshall, Thomas Riley (1854–1925), 208 |
| Marshall, Thurgood (1908–1993), 1895 |
| Marshalov, Boris (1902–1967), 266 |
| Martin, Edward (1879–1967), quoting Calvin Coolidge, 951 |
| Martin, John A. (1868–1939), 2064 |
| Martin, Joseph W., Jr. (1884–1968), 247 |
| Marx, Karl (1818–1883), 856, 1654, 2042 |
| Mary I, Queen of England (1516–1558), 838 |
| Mason, George (1725–1792), letter from George Washington, 525 |
| Masson, Thomas Lansing (1866–1934), 1807 |
| Masters, Edgar Lee (1869–1950), 1452 |
| Matsushita, Konosuke (1894–1989), 2073 |
| Maurois André (pseudonym of Emile-Salomon-Wilhelm Herzog, 1885–1967), 25 |
| Maxe, Bob, 1978 |
| Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal (1602–1661), 1788 |
| McCrae, John (1872–1918), 2048 |
| McGovern, George (1922– ), quoting Stephen Vincent Benét, 1542 quoting William Butler Yeats, 690 |
| McGroarty, John Steven (1862–1944), 302 |
| McGuffey, William Holmes (1800–1873), 470 |
| McKean, Thomas (1734–1817), letter from John Adams, 1620 |
| McKinley, William (1843–1901), 1470, 1537 |
| McNamara, Robert Strange (1916– ), 407, 1326, quoting T. S. Eliot, 579 |
| Mead, Margaret (1901–1978), 1190 |
| Mecom, Jane (1712–1794), letter from Benjamin Franklin, 1551 |
| Meilhan, Edgard (pseudonym of Théophile Gautier). See Gautier, Théophile. |
| Melville, Herman (1819–1891), 863, 1272 |
| Mencken, Henry Louis (1880–1956), 422–423, 562, 870, 1039, 1230, 1306, 1309, 1421, 1736, 2015 |
| Menen, Aubrey (1912–1989), 1095 |
| Menken, S. Stanwood (1870–1954), letter from Theodore Roosevelt, 58 |
| Menninger, Karl Augustus (1893–1990), 1096 |
| Meredith, George (1828–1909), 915 |
| Merton, Thomas (1915–1968), 1441 |
| Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von (1773–1859), 559, 1369 |
| Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873), 649–652, 741–742, 903–904, 1071, 1150, 1644, 1760, 1766, 1934, 2001 |
| Millis, Walter (1899–1968), 1935 |
| Milton, John (1608–1674), 563, 919, 1453 |
| Minot, George Richards (1885–1950), letter from Fisher Ames, 279 |
| Minow, Newton N. (1926– ), 1801 |
| Mishnah, 1673, 2022 |
| Mitchell, George J. (1933– ), quoting Oliver Cromwell, 1035 |
| Mitchell, John Newton (1913–1988), 9 |
| Mizner, Wilson (1876–1933), 2077 |
| Mola, Emilio (1887–1937), 408 |
| Mondale, Walter Frederick (1928– ), 966, 1222 |
| Monroe, James (1758–1831), letters from Thomas Jefferson, 1091, 1187 |
| Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich. See Sandwich. |
| Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592), 1782 |
| Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de (1689–1755), 1606 |
| Montessori, Maria (1870–1952), 1664 |
| Moody, Dwight Lyman (1837–1899), 187 |
| Moody, William Henry (1853–1917), letter from Theodore Roosevelt, 961 |
| Moorer, Thomas H. (1912– ), 1729 |
| More, Sir Thomas (1478–1535), 1471 character in play, A Man for All Seasons, 434, 998, 1764 |
| Morgan, John Pierpont (1837–1913), 1582 |
| Morley, Christopher (1890–1957), 1783 |
| Morris, Gouverneur (1752–1816), letters from: Jones, John Paul, 1624 Washington, George, 619 |
| Morrison, Herbert Stanley, Baron Morrison of Lambeth (1888–1965), letter from Winston Churchill, 1525 |
| Morse, Theodore, 1226 |
| Morse, Wayne Lyman (1900–1974), 1254 |
| Moses, George H. (1869–1944), letter from Herbert Clark Hoover, 349 |
| Motta, Dick (1931– ), 1817 |
| Moyers, Bill D. (1934– ), 1400 |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (1927–2003), 1579 |
| Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel (1746–1807), 1936 |
| Mulligan, James Hilary (1844–1916), 964 |
| Mumford, William Green (1775–1825), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 676 |
| Murphy, Edward A., Jr. (1918– ), 1232 |
| Muskie, Edmund Sixtus (1914–1996), 743 |
| Nader, Ralph (1934– ), 145 |
| Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769–1821), 202, 744, 1213, 1401 character in play, Man of Destiny, 535 |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdal (1918–1970), 1937 |
| Nathan, George Jean (1882–1958), 1905 |
| National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1896 |
| Neilson, William Allan (1869–1946), letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 225 |
| Nesbit, Wilbur D. (1871–1927), 602 |
| Nicolson, Sir Harold George (1886–1968), 439 |
| Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892–1971), 1422, 1472 |
| Niemöller, Martin (1892–1984), 1749 |
| Nimitz, Chester William (1885–1966), 409, 1689, 1784 |
| Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913–1994), 54, 83, 110, 156, 626, 653, 1140, 1255, 1327, 1402, 1501–1502, 1564, 1884–1886, 1938–1939, 1979–1980, 2043, 2096 inaugural address (1973), 771 letter to Emanuel Cellar, 893 State of the Union address (1971), 1617 |
| Northwest Ordinance, 55 |
| O’Brien, Tom (1900– ), 532 |
| O’Connell, Daniel (1775–1847), 1640 |
| Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph (1702–1782), 1472 |
| Oetinger, Johann Christoph (fl. 1762–1769), 1472 |
| O’Neill, James H., 1473 |
| Opdyke, George (1805–1880), letter from Abraham Lincoln, 1724 |
| Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904–1967), 123, 237, 1097 |
| O’Reilly, John Boyle (1844–1890), 2034 |
| Orwell, George (pseudonym of Eric Blair, 1903–1950), 553, 1962 |
| Otis, James (1725–1783), 1057 |
| Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.–A.D. 18), 862 |
| Page, John (1743–1808), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 841 |
| Paine, Thomas (1737–1809), 343, 356, 664–665, 1072, 1199, 1821, 1845, 1906, 2035 letter to George Washington, 1976 |
| Pakenham, Richard (1797–1868), letter from John C. Calhoun, 1985 |
| Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount (1784–1865), 42, 533 |
| Parker, John (1729–1775), 1940 |
| Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662), 103, 826, 2078 |
| Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890–1960), 1120 |
| Pasteur, Louis (1822–1895), 174, 1963 |
| Paton, Alan (1903–1988), 1580 |
| Patrick, John (pseudonym of John Patrick Goggan, 1907– ), 2002 |
| Patton, George Smith, Jr. (1885–1945), 1362, 1730 |
| Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), Pope (1897–1978), 1152, 1538 |
| Paul, Elliot (1891–1958), 2016 |
| Pauncefote, Julian, 1st Baron Pauncefote (1828–1902), letter from Lord Salisbury, 630 |
| Péguy, Charles-Pierre (1873–1914), 958 |
| Penn, William (1644–1718), 146, 564, 745–746, 959, 1454, 1565 |
| Penrose, Boies (1860–1921), 1168 |
| Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819), 518, 990 |
| Pétain, Henri Philippe (1856–1951), 2063 |
| Peter, Laurence Johnston (1919–1990), 390 |
| Petrigru, James Louis (1789–1863), 549, 1969 |
| Petrie, Charles (1895–1977), quoting exchange between Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes, 372 |
| Petronius, Gaius (Petronius Arbiter) (d. c. 66), 1539 |
| Philip II, King of Macedon (382–336 B.C.), 1224 |
| Phillips, Wendell (1811–1884), 1073, 1110 quoting Daniel O’Connell, 1640 |
| Pickering, Timothy (1745–1829), letter from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 804 |
| Pictet, Mr., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 803 |
| Pierce, Henry Lillie (1825–1896), letter from Abraham Lincoln, 648, 1068, 1719 |
| Pike, Albert (1809–1891), 887 |
| Pilkington Report, 1802–1803 |
| Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (1746–1825), letter to Timothy Pickering, 804 |
| Pitt, William, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), 861 |
| Pitt, William, the Younger (1759–1806), 534 |
| Pius XI (Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti), Pope (1857–1939), 435 |
| Pizarro, Francisco (c. 1475–1541), 834 |
| Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig (1858–1947), 1665 |
| Plato (427?–347 B.C.), 565, 963, 1016, 1404 |
| Plautus, Titus Maccius (254–184 B.C.), 1335 |
| Player, Willis (1915– ), 1043 |
| Plessis, Armand Jean du, Cardinal and Duc de Richelieu. See Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal and Duc de. |
| Plumer, William (1759–1850), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 383 |
| Plutarch (46?–c. 120), 211, 216, 1022, 1284, 1423, 1941 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849), 1359 |
| Polk, Willis Jefferson (1867–1924), 1360 |
| Pollock, Sir Frederick (1845–1937), letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2006 |
| Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 594, 2021 |
| Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908–1972), 118, 303 |
| Price, Richard, letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1338 |
| Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809–1865), 747 |
| Pulaski, Casimir (1747–1779), 1626 |
| Pulitzer, Joseph (1847–1911), 1249 |
| Pusey, Nathan Marsh (1907–2001), 524 |
| Putnam, George Haven (1844–1930), 1508 |
| Quarles, Francis (1592–1644), 1731 |
| Raikes, Thomas (1777–1848), letter from Duke of Wellington, 911 |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554?–1618), 2044 |
| Ramayana, 1095 |
| Randall, Henry Stephens (1811–1876), letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay, 334, 420–421, 1139, 1847 |
| Randolph, Asa Philip (1889–1979), 960 |
| Randolph, Edmund Jennings (1753–1813), 336 |
| Randolph, John (1773–1833), 471, 554, 805, 1038, 1098, 1172, 1816 |
| Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr. (1768–1828), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 851 |
| Rankin, Jeannette (1880–1973), 1942 |
| Rayburn, Sam Taliaferro (1882–1961), 267–269, 283–284, 1023, 1839 |
| Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911– ), 775, 1384 official inaugural invitation (1985), 82 quoting James Madison, 82 quoting John G. Magee, Jr., 603 quoting Thomas Paine, 2035 quoting Carl Sandburg, 464 |
| Red Cloud, Sioux Chief (1822–1909), 1545 |
| Redfield, William C. (1789–1857), 584 |
| Reed, Thomas Brackett (1839–1902), 970, 1503 |
| Rees, Elfan B. (1906–1978), 449 |
| Reik, Theodor (1888–1969), 845 |
| Reischauer, Edwin O. (1910–1990), 248 |
| Rhodes, Cecil John (1853–1902), 499 |
| Rice, Grantland (1880–1954), 1993 |
| Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de (1585–1642), 908 |
| Ritchie, Thomas (1778–1854), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 943 |
| Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle (1869–1948), 1099 |
| Roane, Spencer (1762–1822), letters from Thomas Jefferson, 330, 942 |
| Robbins, Leonard Harman (1877–1947), 1141 |
| Robinson, Henry Morton (1898–1961), 1474 |
| Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de La. See La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de. |
| Rockefeller, John Davison (1839–1937), 588, 1207 |
| Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908–1979), 627, 806, 1522, 1981 |
| Rogers, John Jacob (1881–1925), 428 |
| Rogers, William Penn Adair (1879–1935), 84, 270–271, 429–431, 748, 807, 878, 1155, 1943–1944 letter to Warren G. Harding, 1385 |
| Rogers, William Pierce (1913–2001), 2036 |
| Rohlfs, Anna Katherine (Green) (1846–1935), 519 |
| Romney, George (1907–1995), 232 |
| Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884–1962), 866 |
| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945), 113, 249, 272, 388, 479–480, 654–655, 695, 749, 808–809, 882, 985, 1154, 1273, 1455, 1482, 1504, 1607, 1763, 1843, 1928, 1945, 1984, 2064–2066 fireside chats, 56, 750 inaugural address (1933), 599 letters from: Daniels, Josephus, 5 Einstein, Albert, 124 letters to: Hill, Samuel B., 337 Neilson, William Allan, 225 quoted by Bruce Barton, 379 quoting: Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1463 Locke, George L., 1468 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1153, 1584 Mary I, Queen of England, 838 State of the Union address (1945), 910 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore (1858–1919), 10–11, 57–58, 152, 212, 226, 310–313, 500, 589, 628–629, 827, 867, 883, 1121, 1168, 1191, 1231, 1274, 1403, 1424, 1505–1508, 1566, 1637, 1965 letter to William Moody, 961 |
| Root, Elihu (1845–1937), 783, 1425 |
| Ross, Edmund Gibson (1826–1907), 894 |
| Rostand, Edmond (1868–1918), 656 |
| Rostand, Edmond, Mme. See Gérard, Rosemonde. |
| Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712–1778), 213, 920 quoting a great princess, 1347 |
| Ruge, John (1915– ), 2017 |
| Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813), letters from Thomas Jefferson, 1064, 1844 |
| Rusk, Dean (1909–1994), 612, 2037 |
| Ruskin, John (1819–1900), 1236, 1295, 1608 |
| Russell, Bertrand, Earl Russell (1872–1970), 1275 |
| Russell, George William (pseudonym AE) (1867–1935), 1866 |
| Russell, Richard Brevard, Jr. (1897–1971), 1259 |
| Rutledge, John, Jr. (1739–1800), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 92 |
| Ryan, Abram Joseph (1838–1886), 857 |
| Ryan, Oswald (1888– ), letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1089 |
| Sadi (Muslih-ud-Din) (1184–1291), 1682 |
| St. Louis Post-Dispatch, platform, 1249 |
| Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquis of (1830–1903), 630, 1370 |
Sana’ of Ghazn (1072–c. 1150), 1221 |
| Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967), 59–60, 464, 1100, 1109, 1426, 1946, 1964 |
| Sanders, Henry R. (“Red”) (1905–1958), 1990 |
| Sandler, Bernice (1928– ), 1483 |
| Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of (1718–1792), 372 |
| Santayana, George (1863–1952), 1156, 1291–1292 |
| Sarnoff, Stanley J., 1122 |
| Saxe, John Godfrey (1816–1887), 879 |
| Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805), 1694 |
| Schmidt, Conrad, letter from Friedrich Engels, 242 |
| Schmidt, Johann Kaspar. See Stirner, Max. |
| Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860), 180, 1197 |