| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Safire, William to Shooting |
| Safire, William (1929– ), 1553 |
| Said what I meant and meant what I s., 513 what is s. against me, 110 |
| Sail and not drift, not lie at anchor, 5 For what avail the plough or s.,… if freedom fail?, 641 never strike s. to fear, 597 no connexion with any ship that does not s. fast, 848 sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, 5 with God the seas, 597 Your constitution is all s. and no anchor, 334 |
| Sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, 129 Fleet s. under Convoy, 44 |
| Sailors fleetest S. must wait for the dullest and slowest, 44 |
| Saint I am not a s., 1491 |
| Saint Louis. See Louis IX, King of France. |
| Salad bowl, 49 describing an Italian s., 1867 preparation of a s., 1867 |
| Salk, Jonas (1914– ), 65 |
| Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86–34 B.C.), 1283 |
| Salutation of the Dawn, 1106 |
| Salvation for a race, nation, or class must come from within, 960 |
| San Domingo, annexation, 1484 |
| San Francisco some [men] are stationed in S.F., 1092 |
| Sand magic of property turns s. to gold, 1550 see a world in a grain of s., 196 sketches in the s., 1248 wrote my name upon the s., 1215 |
| Sans teeth, s. eyes, s. taste, s. everything, 1158 |
| Santa Claus, 1660 Yes, Virginia, there is a S.C., 1660 See also Christmas |
| Sappho (fl. c. 600 B.C.) though she was a woman [was honored], 1996 |
| Sat long enough, 1035 too long here for any good you have been doing lately, 1035 |
| Satellites we [England] do not intend to be satellites, 531 |
| Satire is this on government, 1789 |
| Satirize the political gods, 1642 |
| Satisfaction one great universal s., 1227 think of your work with s., 2032 |
| Saturday Evening Post, 917 |
| Saturday’s child works hard for its living, 200 |
| Saucer we pour legislation into the senatorial s. to cool it, 294 |
| Sausages laws and s., 996 |
| Savage chief of still more s. men, 1019 lonely s., 839 |
| Savageness tame the s. of man, 1864 |
| Save he [God] need not exist in order to s. us, 702 |
| Saved I s. my money, 2071 |
| Savior of Europe, 534 |
| Say Don’t s. things, 186 having nothing to s., 1692 I am not going to s. anything I do not think, 673 I didn’t s. that I didn’t s. it, 232 kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, 135 need not fear to s. it, 169 watch what we do instead of what we s., 9 what the critics s., 110 |
| Says speak and s. nothing, 266 |
| Say’st Thou s. an undisputed thing / In such a solemn way, 631 |
| Scalp ran his hand over Nick’s shiny s., 2008 |
| Scandals corruption and injustice in our nation’s history, 1522 |
| Scapegoats people are looking for s., 524 |
| Scare land of slander and s., 62 |
| Scarecrow impeachment is scarcely a s., 941 |
| Scared be s. of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be, 354 |
| Scenery Not one cent for s., 308 |
| Schoolmaster and remain fit for anything else, 287 |
| Schools and the means of education, 55 |
| Science, 1661–1665 and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, 1963 lights of perverted s., 2055 main objects of all s., 779 Modern civilization depends on s., 1663 of Government it is my Duty to study, 481 our own cleverness in s., 125 will have moved forward yet one more step, 505 without humanity, 1697 without religion is lame, 1662 |
| Scientific and technological achievements, 1134 triumph of s. annihilation, 1258 truth, 1665 |
| Scientist What is a s., 1664 |
| Scorpions two s. in a bottle, 237 |
| Scotland first rate land in … S., 554 |
| Scoundrel refuge of a s., 1306 |
| Scratch another’s back if he’ll s. mine, 656 |
| Scriptures advise no one to send his child where the Holy S. are not supreme, 239 |
| Sea, 1666–1667 from which all heights and depths are measured, 1666 Had washed my feeble lines away, 1215 lashed into fury, 1666 that salts all the waters that flow into it [China], 201 thy s. is so great, 1479 why the s. is boiling hot, 1811 will wash away, 1248 |
| Sealing-wax, 1811 |
| Sea-shore three geographical miles from the s., 1809 |
| Season duty neglected in its s., 1830 it was the s. of light, it was the s. of darkness, 1818 of suffering, 220 To every thing there is a s., 1810 |
| Second free man first and an American s., 1396 front in Europe, 2067 office of this government is honorable and easy, 1493 What place does the possibility of a s. front occupy, 2068 |
| Secrecy, 1668–1670 |
| Secret Everything s. degenerates, 1668 neither have I gained office by any s. promises, 1492 of success, 1779 you have not chosen me by s. ballot, 1492 |
| Secrets no s. from government, 1529 |
| Security, 1671–1672 abandon altogether the search for s., 1127 absolute economic and social s., 70 against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty, 496 Americans want is s., 1671 Decency, s. and liberty alike demand, 793 greatest s. of the people, 1052 light … is the best s., 496 live in all possible s., 785 Nation’s s. is at stake, 1530 no s. on this earth, 1672 only s. which freemen desire, 1196 politicians … swear eternal devotion to the ends of peace and s., 631 prefer the illusion of s. to the excitement of danger, 2095 seek opportunity—not s., 71 |
| Seduction “temperate and moderate,” are words [of] s., 1199 |
| See content to wait and s. what will happen, 1636 the light, 1665 to s., we have only to look, 1467 what is right and not to do it, 1635 |
| Seed faith as a grain of mustard s., 592 |
| Seeds of despotism, 1069 |
| Seeker this, s., is the promise of America, 68 |
| Seen from the s. to the unseen, 1229 |
| Self, 1673–1676 to thine own s. be true, 1675 |
| Self-confidence as young as your s., 2099 |
| Self-deception, 1677 nothing is easier than self-deceit, 1677 |
| Self-esteem, 1680 |
| Self-examination, 1678–1679 |
| Self-forgetting, 845 |
| Self-government art of s., 1425 principles of s., 1975 qualifications for s. in society are not innate, 725 |
| Self-importance, 1680–1681 |
| Self-interest predominant principle of s., 425 |
| Self-pity, 1682 |
| Self-preservation strikes its jarring gong, 854 |
| Self-realization, 1674 |
| Self-respect, 1683 man can draw the breath of s., 350 |
| Self-righteousness, 224 |
| Self-sacrifice, 1674 |
| Self-seeking, 845 |
| Selfish license, 759 |
| Selling Every one lives by s. something, 1123 |
| Senate representation in our State S., 1592 See also Congress—Senate |
| Senator and remain fit for anything else, 287 it is more a real life than being a S., 295 a man must learn to be a Representative or a S., 301 value of the Representative or S. increases in proportion to his length of service, 301 See also Congress; Congress—Senate; Congressman; Congressmen |
| Senatorial we pour legislation into the s. saucer to cool it, 294 |
| Senators No, I look at the S. and pray for the country, 289 |
| Send me none but Natives, 1629 |
| Senior citizens, 22 |
| Sense talk s. to the American people, 52, 85 too much for simple honesty and plain s., 259 warp of s. and his woof of nonsense, 625 without hard practical s., 43 |
| Sensible man, 3 |
| Sentence first—verdict afterwards, 949 under s. of life, 196 |
| Separate powers the parts, 1867 |
| Separation of church and state is absolute, 669 of powers, 789 See also Government—separation of powers |
| Serenity to accept things that cannot be changed, 1472 to accept what cannot be changed, 1472 |
| Serenity Prayer, 1472 |
| Serf Russian s., 1698 |
| Serious War is much too s. a matter to be entrusted to the military, 1954 |
| Seriously take ourselves s., 1681 |
| Sermon preach a better s., 1780 |
| Servant in the House of the Lord, 699 of man, 1613 of the state, 1759 public s. third, 1396 serve my country as a faithful s., 766 troublesome s. and a fearful master, 754 |
| Servants public s., 1507 |
| Serve the national interest, 1381 |
| Serveto, Miguel (1511–1553), 957 |
| Servetus, Michael. See Serveto, Miguel. |
| Service length of s., 285 necessary for the public good, 1561 of humanity, 1570 to his Country, 30 |
| Servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, 1054 profusion and s., 381 |
| Setting sun of a black night, 59 |
| “The Seven Sins,” 1697 |
| Sex, 1684–1685 mystery of s. the subject of a coarse jest, 1684 prejudice, 1483 without discrimination because of s., 650 |
| Sexual impurity, 167 instinct is not all that he has, 1152 |
| Shackles for the liberties of the people, 1455 |
| Shade Friendship is precious, not only in the s., 687 |
| Shadow you cannot see the s., 1435 |
| Shadows flee away, 1467 those who are in the s. of life, 724 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), 97, 1686 |
| Shameless abject, squalid, s. avowal, 2089 |
| She made life poetry for me, 2006 ship is always referred to as “s.,” 1689 |
| Sheep wolf how many the s. be, 1176 |
| Shining golden opportunity, 68 good men, not s., but honest, 279 morning face, 1158 |
| Ship Don’t give up the s., 990 great s. swims as well as a small cork, 1744 is always referred to as “she,” 1689 is not sinking, 1688 let him not steer the s. from on shore, 1928 |
| Ships and shipping, 1687–1689 See also Three-mile limit |
| Shoe abused because I had no s., 1682 want of a s., 1240 |
| Shoes not the means of obtaining s., 1682 |
| Shoot Take them [ex-Presidents] out and s. them, 1488 |
| Shooting war is over, 233 |
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