August Spies Quotes

You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

August Spies

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• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Conscience
  • Nobody
  • Tale

• Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Why
  • Together
  • Nature

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Control
  • Never

• When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• A million years went by quick.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Years
  • Million
  • Quick

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence

• A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• I've done a lot worse than jump off piers, son. Like throw a television out the window.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Son
  • Jump

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude descending the stairs' is the result of the desire for motion. Here he has also eliminated representative form. This avoids the connotation of ideas which would interfere with the success of the main issue - the sense of movement.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Success
  • Desire

• The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Past

• Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

  

  Ivan Pavlov
  • Work
  • Passionate
  • Searching

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Father

• You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • School
  • Shops

• You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

  

  August Spies
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Sentenced