| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Prophets to Reactionary |
| Prophets persecuted they the p., 102 |
| Proportion inverse p. to our creative capacity, 1681 |
| Propriety decency and p. of conduct, 884 of having a Congress, 1496 of the nation must be startled, 1575 See also Impropriety |
| Prosper [Fortune] suffers not the same man to p. for ever, 637 neither man nor nation can p. unless … thought is … taken for the future, 312 |
| Prosperity -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, 479 |
| Prostitution victims of legal p., 1210 |
| Protect the people, 292 |
| Protest 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., 441 |
| Protestant Hitler attacked me and the P. church, 1749 |
| Protests series of p., 1717 |
| Protocol alcohol, and Geritol, 1858 |
| Proud 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, 593 |
| Providence 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, 701 |
| Providential token of p. agency, 1344 |
| Prudence [forbids] … paying our own money for unexplained projects, 802 there is also a false, reptile p., 596 |
| Prudent 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, 1396 |
| Prying lost as much as we gained by p. into that matter, 974 |
| Psalm of brotherhood, 1693 |
| “The Psalm of the Addict,” 852 |
| Psychology [has not yet found] a sensible soul, 111 |
| Public 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, 1170 |
| Public 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., 221 |
| Public 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, 115 |
| Public office anything, that is, except p. o., 1602 refusal … to sacrifice … integrity … for the sake of winning p. o., 1018 |
| Public officials right to criticise their own p. o., 171 |
| Public 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 Opinion |
| Public 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 Office |
| Publication consequences of their p., 1669 |
| Publicity, 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., 1668 |
| Published posthumously, 1285 vast number of titles which are p., 169 |
| Publishers build the fleet, 129 |
| Pull The other is p., 1412 |
| Pulpit bully p., 1508 politics and the p. are terms that have little agreement, 1417 |
| Pulpits flame with righteousness, 829 |
| Punish the wrongdoers, 211 |
| Puppets political p., 1455 |
| Puritans, 1574 there were all kinds of P., 1574 |
| Purpose constancy of p., 1779 |
| Purse 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, 1084 |
| Push One of two things mainly conducive to success, 1412 |
| Pusillanimous our decisions, however p., 389 pussyfooting, 1042 |
| Puzzle that’s the great puzzle, 1678 |
| Quakers. See Society of Friends. |
| Qualifications for the office, 1499 for the position which he seeks, 301 |
| Quality of the Nation’s life, 2028 |
| Quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing, 2050 national q., 1929 which has already been settled in principle, 2050 |
| Queen sent word to a Throne, 2014 |
| Question 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., 989 |
| Questions all q. in the earth and out of it, 700 |
| Quick comradeship of letters, 2081 in temper, 2092 to act, 2092 |
| Quicksand of racial injustice, 1693 |
| Quiet and dignified simplicity, 108 |
| Quincy, Dorothy (fl. 1738), 1090 |
| Quit Americans never q., 80 don’t you q., 1358 |
| Quixote of the world, 533 |
| R, means right, 1226 |
| Race, 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, 1482 |
| Races 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, 1576 |
| Racial discrimination, 117, 1896 injustice, 1894 quicksand of r. injustice, 1693 rhetoric fades, 1579 stigma, 1877 |
| Racism in reverse at its worst, 1577 |
| Racket mad r. and the hazards of the forum, 376 that will stop the r., 1912 |
| Radical Is not every man sometimes a r. in politics?, 315 to remove all that is bad [in our constitution], 314 Youth should be r., 157 |
| Radicals are the men past middle life, 2100 Two r., one of whom is a deputy, 1031 when r. criticise, 1642 |
| Rain snow, nor r., nor heat, nor gloom of night, 1439 without thunder and lightning, 443 |
| Rainbow reverent feeling for the r., 974 |
| Rains restrain these immoderate r., 1473 |
| Raisin like a r. in the sun, 461 |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?–1618), 119 |
| Rally round the flag, boys, 601 |
| Rare as a day in June, 2072 |
| Rat Anyone can r., 1374 |
| Rather 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, 1543 |
| Rational more r. is overcome by the less r., 677 |
| Rats are still around, 1688 peeping through bunches of oakum [English judges], 927 |
| Ravages of industrial progress, 16 |
| Rayburn, Sam Taliaferro (1882–1961), 2099 |
| Reach man’s r. should exceed his grasp, 1840 |
| Reactionary as the multiplication table, 2025 |
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