| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Reward to Safety-first |
| Reward from God, 517 good conscience our only sure r., 7 in heaven, 102 is great, 2022 no enemies to r., 1407 pecuniary r., 1561 |
| Rewards of ambition, 783 of industry, 783 of learning, 783 of virtue, 783 |
| Rhee, Syngman (1875–1965), 1878 |
| Rhine frontier of America is on the R., 2064 |
| Rich, 1631–1633 America in which people can still get r., 1384 bales of study and jeweled ideas, 129 cannot help the poor by destroying the r., 1117 if we make the r. richer, 479 impassable gulf divided the R. from the Poor, 1631 it cannot save the few who are r., 623 law to prevent a man from getting r., 1633 materially r., 1632 no nation is r. enough to pay for both war and civilization, 1919 shows that others may be r., 1547 to make the people r., 781 to protect them in making themselves r., 781 the well-born, and the able, 259 who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy, 1139 Who is r., 1146 widows, 2005 |
| Richer and r. consumers in filthier and filthier communities, 17 |
| Riches greed and lust for r., 833 There lies Peru with its r., 834 they had hoped to divert to a nobler cause, 1456 When r. take wings, 446 |
| Riddle wrapped in a mystery, 1652 |
| Rider was lost, 1240 |
| Riders in a race do not stop short, when they reach the goal, 1115 on the earth together, 1742 |
| Ridiculous his position on almost every public question was … r., 1274 |
| Right, 1634–1637 advocacy of what is just and r., 1851 aggressive fighting for the r., 1637 all the time, 653 and fair, 256 are swept aside by the rage of angry men, 1929 at the time, 1551 because it is r., 623 both of making and of enforcing laws, 788 cannot r. every wrong, 1735 champion of justice and r., 533 desire to do r., 1307 fashionable to be r., 1563 fight for the r., 1634 firmness in the r., 1325 For every r. that you cherish, 1605 God will bless the r., 601 God-given r. to kick the government around, 743 Government … has no r. to interfere with anything other than that general class of things, 1761 greatest r. in the world, 1642 If well made at the r. time it is effective, 1824 is more precious than peace, 2049 isn’t r. to gloat over the dead, 365 It is his legal r., 982 Lord is always on the side of the r., 704 make the r. things happen, 1636 makes might, 1490 men who have neither the r. nor the knowledge, 747 motive, 1909 My country, r. or wrong, 345, 1641 no r. where there is no justice, 946 not only his [the President’s] r., 1505 not r. to glory in the slain, 365 of free speech, 673 of independent thought, 61 of the Government to lie, 1083 of voting for representatives, 1906 our country, r. or wrong, 346, 1641 Our country—when r. to be kept r., 1641 politically r., 1640 praise him when he does r., 1507 rather be r. than be President, 1503 see what is r. and not to do it, 1635 she [justice] will her owne cause r., 962 Stand with anybody that stands r., 1639 stand with him while he is r., 1639 strengthen his natural r. to exist and work without injury, 785 study the r. time, 1824 subjects, which I once thought r., 321 ten angels swearing I was r., 110, 1490 that which I believe to be r., 1638 time is always ripe to do r., 1693 to be different, 645 to be heard, 678 to be wrong, 1642 to be wrong in his facts, 1262 to buy, 170 to censure, 959 to criticise their own public officials, 171 to criticize, 61 to his opinion, 1262 to his property, 1548 to hold unpopular beliefs, 61 to independent thought, 61 to liberty, 776 to life, 776 to live, to work, to be himself, 68 to make their own mistakes, 1618 to one country, 883 to protest, 61 to the pursuit of happiness, 776 to worship God, 776 the unrightable wrong, 459 victory to the r., 1903 the wrongs of many, 1695 |
| Right and wrong, 1638–1642 |
| Righteousness as a mighty stream, 931 pulpits flame with r., 829 |
| Rightful intention, 1909 |
| Rights, 1643–1644 and interest of every or any person, 1644 become a prey to the active, 1054 civil r. movement, 116 duty to give him the full r. of an American, 883 endowed by their creator with certain inalienable r., 397 fight for his r., 1191 inherent & inalienable, 396 natural r. of mankind, 1058 of every man, 219 of Man, 347, 394 of nations, 864 of one man, 219 of property, 1549 of the States, 1849 other man’s r., 1761 political r., 1653 private r. and public happiness, 82 protection of every individual’s private r., 1643 sacred r. of mankind, 865 |
| Rights of man. See Human rights. |
| Riot is a spontaneous outburst, 1939 |
| Riots more r. that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow, 157 |
| Ripple of hope, 8 |
| Rise Great nations r. and fall, 1238 without his [God’s] aid, 703 |
| Rising expectations, 182, 1618 sun fresh from the burning, 59 tide lifts all the boats, 1667 |
| Risk of wearing out, 11 reach out to the r. of living with both arms, 1127 |
| Risks man sits as many r. as he runs, 1105 |
| River, 1646 build a bridge even where there is no r., 1398 is more than an amenity, 1645 One r. born of many streams, 1866 our magnificent r. system, 311 |
| Rivers turn our r. and streams into sewers, 313 |
| Road ahead is not altogether smooth, 220 covered with blood, 1937 Fork in the political r., 62 in search not merely of its r. but even of its direction, 474 rise to meet you, 1478 to hell is paved with them [good intentions], 291 to success, 1777 |
| Roads Good r., 217 two r. that lead to something like human happiness, 845 |
| Roar called upon to give the r., 1276 |
| Robbers don’t put r. to work in a bank, 1588 |
| Robs Peter to pay Paul, 1796 you on business principles, 535 |
| Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de (1725–1807), 897 |
| Rock of the national resources, 813 solid r. of human dignity, 1693 upon which states are built, 526 |
| Rockets rattle their r., 1881 |
| Rocking chair sit here in our r. c. … and let the Communists, 243 |
| Rocky Mountains, 476 |
| Rogers, Will (1879–1935), 65, 966 |
| Roman citizen, 215 Emperors, 1653 Empire, 334 noblest R. of them all, 1160 Republic, 1867 |
| Romantic life is a r. business, 1089 |
| Rome, 1071, 1646–1648 Empire of R., 1019 lest R. become bankrupt, 795 more glorious edifice than Greece or R., 755 strongest state that history has known, 206 there will not be different laws at R. and at Athens, 1000 |
| Rome’s decline lay in her people, 1646 liberties were not auctioned off in a day, 1648 |
| Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884–1962) tribute by Adlai E. Stevenson, 448 |
| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945), 249, 379, 986, 1463, 1499, 1512 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore (1858–1919), 1392, 1488 |
| Root tap r. of civilization, 1437 |
| Rope of sand, 1004 sell us the r. to hang them with, 246 |
| Rose more nourishing than a cabbage, 870 smells better than a cabbage, 870 |
| Roses days of wine and r., 460 Don’t strew me with r. after I’m dead, 1217 give me my r. now, 1217 |
| Ross, Betsy (1752–1836), 65 |
| Rot and dissolution, 60 |
| Route short r. to chaos, 1764 |
| Ruin inevitable r. must follow, 525 |
| Ruinous always discreditable, and sometimes r., 713 free / From r. discords, 915 |
| Ruins disease-soaked r. of a slum, 1162 |
| Rule Here the people r., 761 under This Roof, 1462 Wars are, of course, as a r. to be avoided, 1965 which has been made by the legislature, 1040 |
| Ruled by tyrants, 746 |
| Rulers not let our r. load us with perpetual debt, 381 Of the best r., 1020 protect the people against their r., 292 |
| Rules, 1649 are mostly made to be broken, 1649 by terror, 1653 for campus conduct, 153 governing the relations between members of the same society, 1013 Who r. East Europe, 2041 Who r. the Heartland, 2041 Who r. the World-Island, 2041 |
| Run He can r. But he can’t hide 1651 |
| Running, 1650–1651 all the r. you can do, to keep in the same place, 1650 |
| Runs man sits as many risks as he r., 1105 |
| Rural-life policies, 312 |
| Rush, Richard (1780–1859), 1172 |
| Russia, 1652–1658 collapse in R. followed by communism, 2046 has lost the cold war, 236 is one of the worst tyrannies, 1653 is threatening us with her might, 155 Red China and R. are having their differences, 2043 riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, 1652 runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste, 1654 So you’ve been over into R., 696 world’s troubles are not due just to R., 1618 |
| Russian comedy, everybody dies, 1655 is at grips with men, 2045 national interest, 1652 serf, 1698 tragedy, everybody dies, 1655 |
| Russians I want them to be Americans and not R., 1259 in the over all drain on the nation, 2070 two great nations in the world … the R. and the Anglo-Americans, 2045 |
| Russia’s [conquests are made] with the sword, 2045 policy, 2042 |
| Rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use, 575 |
| Rusting out, 11 |
| Sabbath Remember the s. day, 1804 |
| Sacred cause half so s. as the cause of a people, 1570 fight for things s., 100 not disgrace my s. arms, 100 rights of mankind, 865 trust, 1604 |
| Sacrifice, 1659 final s. for life and freedom, 660 highest act of religious teaching, 1728 his enlightened conscience, he ought not to s., 280 Too long a s., 1659 unpitied s. in a contemptible struggle, 560 worship without s., 1697 |
| Sacrifices it [unbiased opinion] to your opinion, 280 |
| Sacrificing absurdly s. the end to the means, 1009 |
| Safe deposit of these but with the people themselves, 492 depository of the ultimate powers of the society, 491 where shall a man be s., if it be not in his house, 859 |
| Safeguard of our liberties, 333 |
| Safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right, 1563 |
| Safety clamorous to be led to s., 1421 deserve neither Liberty nor S., 1056 fear is the mother of s., 595 sit in s. under his own vine and fig-tree, 670 to obtain a little s., 1056 to purchase a little temporary S., 1056 |
| Safety-first, 58 |
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