| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Bad to Bondage |
| Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, 1372 from b. to worse, 177 good administration can never save b. policy, 1372 growing old … a b. habit, 25 if men be b., let government be never so good, 745 Let men be good, and the government cannot be b., 745 nothing so b. or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it, 535 When b. men combine, 560 |
| Balance-wheel of the social machinery, 498 |
| Balanced budget, 379, 795, 801, 1411 |
| Ballot is stronger than the bullet, 1903 |
| Band begins to play, 1723 |
| Bank mania, 101 robbers to work in a b., 1588 |
| Bankruptcy and ruin were as remote as ever, 387 and ruin were at hand, 387 put the Nation into b., 388 road to b., 809 |
| Banks and banking, 101 |
| Banned Books won’t stay b., 168 |
| Banner mongrel b. invented for a league, 1026 |
| Bao Dai (1913– ), 1878 |
| Baptists Catholics can go to Heaven, so can B., 897 |
| Barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe, 1861 |
| Barbarism from b. to degeneration, 47 |
| Barbarous relic, 1205 |
| Bare stripped b. by the curse of plenty, 15 |
| Bargain for the graves we lie in, 2072 I had made, 2071 |
| Bataan, 2060 is like a child in a family who dies, 2058 |
| Battle as you go into b., 1732 care for him who shall have borne the b., 1325 died gloriously on the field of b., 370 give ’em b., 1987 Grant us fair weather for b., 1473 is not to the strong alone, 1061 |
| Battle of Britain, 2055 |
| Bay of Pigs invasion, 1872 |
| Bayonet glittering b., 222 |
| Be To be. what no one ever was, 659 |
| Beacon of hope to the world, 65 [let] your b. [be] beauty, 1360 |
| Beacons Shine for us, dear b., 1474 |
| Bear any burden, 1066 the burden, 89 |
| Beast save both man and b., 89 Your people sir, is nothing but a great b., 1334 |
| Beasts humble b., who with us bear the burden, 89 |
| Beat If you can’t b. ’em, 257 |
| Beaten nation … does not get b., 660 |
| The Beatitudes, 102 |
| Beautiful Patience makes a woman b., 2016 |
| Beauty, 103–104 America which will not be afraid of b., 104 Faded the shape of b., 1219 Faded the sight of b., 1219 [let] your beacon [be] b., 1360 |
| Because it is there, 1741 |
| Become such as she [the land] would b., 475 |
| Bed-fellows Politics makes strange b., 1431 |
| Bedlam We commit honest maniacs to B., 926 |
| Bedrooms of the nation, 1685 |
| Bee is on the wing, 470 |
| Beef, beef, beef, 277 |
| Beer [British] are like their own b., 536 |
| Beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, 2072 |
| Beggars millionaire and many b., 39 |
| Begin the world over again, 2035 with a single step, 1533 |
| Belief, 106–107 epoch of b., 1818 strongest b. was in democracy, 414 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, 599 that the real sin is taking a loss, 138 |
| Beliefs revolutions in an individual’s b., 1837 |
| Believable we must make government b., 715 |
| Believe Do not b. what your teacher tells you, 105 don’t b. in God, 1743 don’t b. in labels, 1396 in a fate, 1 in action before acting, 2 in man, 1743 in their dreams, 2096 in themselves, 2096 nothing, O monks, 105 that grave modifications of the policy … may be voted in or out, 1004 that truth is the glue that holds government together, 255, 1831 that we are lost here in America, 67 we shall be found, 67 young civilians who b. that the laws make the city, 1004 |
| Believes to be true, 1677 |
| Bell for whom the b. tolls, 134 like a fire b. in the night, 1700 tolls for thee, 134 |
| Belly how much fire you have in your b., 1089 |
| Bend to the collective will of their peoples, 1767 |
| Beneficence comprehensive b. of the founder, 1710 |
| Benign neglect, 1579 |
| Benso, Camillo, Conte di Cavour. See Cavour. |
| Bequeath deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to b., 1608 |
| Berlin citizens of B., 215 |
| Bermuda, 108 |
| Berliner Ich bin ein B., 215 |
| Best, 109–112 do his b. and be his b., 1081 do the very b. I know how, 110 does the b. he can, 1515 done my b., 513 done the b. you can, 109 for the b., 112 generation of mankind in the history of the world, 545 of all possible worlds, 112 of times, it was the worst of times, 1818 picture has not yet been painted, 111 to be expected, 403 vote fer th’ b. man, 1899 |
| Betray a jay will b., 305 flatter the people in order to b. them, 63 |
| Betrayal, 113–114 |
| Betrayed with a kiss, 1921 |
| Better a thousand fold abuse of speech than a denial of free speech, 672 I would he were b., 1392 100 guilty Persons should escape, 953 perhaps a little b., 1679 that ten guilty persons escape, 953 Wars are … far b. than certain kinds of peace, 1965 |
| Beverage [Water] as a b., it’s a failure, 1978 |
| Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, 118 |
| Bible ghosted you up a swell story, too, / Called it B., 917 of democracy, 1247 See also Bible in author index |
| Bicentennial of American Independence, 65 See also Revolutionary war (1775–1783) |
| Big achieve political power and do b. things, 1361 |
| Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger …, 50 |
| Bigness against b. and greatness in all their forms, 822 impressed by your b., 51 is still the curse, 137 |
| Bigotry gives to b. no sanction, 670 |
| Bill of Rights, 132, 394, 1389 |
| Billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, 797 here, a billion there, 800 |
| Billions borrow b. for war, 1919 |
| Bind up the nation’s wounds, 1325 |
| Bipartisan foreign policy, 634 |
| Bipartisanship meant consultation in advance, 1386 |
| Bird I call that b. a duck, 1278 little b. that has broken out of the egg, 2085 that walks like a duck, 1278 |
| Birminghams Manchesters and B., 1847 |
| Birth parents who merely gave them b., 482 |
| Bite the hand that feeds them, 906 |
| Black lawyers for blacks, 1015 let the word … “b.” be stricken, 119 night of despair, 59 power, 116 woman for a slave, 1702 |
| Black, Hugo La Fayette (1886–1971), eulogy, 376 |
| Black Panthers, 117 |
| Blackguard a coward, and a liar, 1447 |
| Blacklist, 115 |
| Blackmail Laws … are made by a process of b. and intimidation, 1039 |
| Blacks, 116–119 |
| Blame him when he does wrong, 1507 |
| Bleeding hearts, 445 |
| Blessed act of oblivion, 1294 are the meek, 102 are the merciful, 102 are the peacemakers, 102 are the poor in spirit, 102 are the pure in heart, 102 are they that mourn, 102 are they which are persecuted, 102 are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, 102 are those among nations, 1233 are ye, when men shall revile you, 102 is the man … abstains from giving us wordy evidence, 1692 |
| Blessing on This House, 1462 |
| Blessings of freedom, 663–664 on our deliberations, 703 to all the peoples and powers of earth, 1470 were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, 53 |
| Blind leading the blind, 2087 let us not be b. to our differences, 436 Religion without science is b., 1662 until we see, 1149 veneration for antiquity, 82 with the lust for money, 832 |
| Bliss of Dante has been lost in our civilization, 1093 |
| Blondin, Charles (Originally Jean-François Gravelet) (1824–1897), 731 |
| Blood, 120–121 all of one b., 1481 American b. shed in the field, 2047 and sweat and tears, 57 expence of so much time, b., and treasure, 525 for the liberty of Ethiopia, 1721 how he dealt in b., 120 I am in b. / Stepp’d so far, 114 magic to stir men’s b., 1360 mixture of b., 48 next [constitution] will be drawn in b., 341 of Christians is seed, 1065 of patriots and tyrants, 1065 of their ancestors, 63 road covered with b., 1937 spend her [America’s] b. and her might for the principles that gave her birth, 2049 strange mixture of b., 48 toil, tears and sweat, 1870 toils, sufferings, and b. of their ancestors, 63 will tell, 121 |
| Bloodless substitute for life, 133 |
| Blood-stained steel, 778 |
| Blow against freedom and decency and justice, 1746 the bugles, 218 |
| Blue smoke and mirrors, 1415 |
| Boast ancestors never b., 121 |
| Boat my b. is so small, 1479 |
| Bodies unless the b. politick will exert themselves, 525 |
| Body an irresponsible b., 941 like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, 942 pass from this b. to another, 1752 |
| Bohemia, 122 master to B. is master of Europe, 122 |
| Bolshevik it will be a B. forever, 194 |
| Bomb hydrogen b., 126 them back into the Stone Age, 127 |
| Bomber cost of one modern day heavy b., 403 |
| Bombs bluff about their b., 1881 lead to the construction of b. 124 |
| Bombs and bombing, 123–128 |
| Bond strongest b. of human sympathy, 980 though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad, 1831 |
| Bondage to spiritual truth, 1238 |
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