Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Forebears to Gandhi, Mohandas
Forebearshold fast to the cliches of our f., 1268Forefathers
moved on to triumph, 57Foreign
article of f. manufacture, 617
assistance to f. lands should be curtailed, 795
interests in the hands of the President and the Senate, 632Foreign aid, 611–612Foreign policy, 613–634
bipartisan f. p., 634
finding a balance between means and ends that is the heart of f. p., 631
great goal of our f. p., 1961
it conducts f. p. in order to live, 620
meet it [communism] with every instrumentality of f. p., 580
Our greatest f. p. problem is our divisions at home, 624
political society does not live to conduct f. p., 620
purpose of f. p., 622
Soviet f. p., 1657
whimpering isolationism in f. p., 1042
wisdom and purposes of its f. p., 1935Foreign Secretary
is always faced with this cruel dilemma, 438Forget
never f. what you have said, 1839Forgets
where she [America] came from, 60Forgive
almost any weakness, … [except] stupidity, 84
never f. one who did so [shot him] accidentally, 1231
rarely if ever do they f. them, 198Forgiven
age is f. nothing, 2098
should not be forgotten nor f., 139
Youth, which is f. everything, 2098Forgiveness, 635
God, at least, has a degree of f., 1408
Thou Shalt Not Ask F. for Thy Transgressions, 441Forgives
youth f. itself nothing, 2098Forgiveth
he who f., and is reconciled unto his enemy, 517Forgotten
man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, 1154
should not be f. or forgiven, 139Fork
in the political road, 62Forlorn
standard-bearer of this f. hope, 863Forlornness
imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty f., 863Form
may survive the substance of the faith, 717Fortune, 636–638
hostages have I given to f., 638
hostages to f., 1163
suffers not the same man to prosper for ever, 637
that with malicious joy, 636
vicissitudes of f., 1682Fortunes
men’s f. are on a wheel, 637Forty
knows it [he is a fool] at f., 1223
views at f., 26Forum
mad racket and the hazards of the f., 376Forward
and not back, 1434
go f. now together, 1863
move f. with strong and active faith, 695Foster, Stephen (1826–1864), 65Foul
fair for me and f. for another, 115Found
was lost, and is f., 635
we shall be f., 67Foundations
put the f. under them, 466Founding
fathers, 1999
fathers of our country gave balanced representation, 1592Four
essential human freedoms, 655
things a man must learn to do, 1126
things greater than all things are, 8244–H Club, 1553Fourteen Points, 1027Fourth
estate, 1520
I was a … Democrat f., 1396Fourth of July. See Independence Day.Foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry, 509France
[American Independence Day] is celebrated with more … fervor … in F., 897
arrangement was made between F. and Holland, 890
contempt upon the lips of the manhood of … F., 2089
Every man has two countries, his own and F., 343
military hospital in F., 1897
ordered armies of the United States, to the soil of F., 698
When F. has a cold, all Europe sneezes, 559Frankenstein
to destroy both sides, 1258Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), 65Fraud
and prevarication our servile vices, 1082
prosecution of f., 467Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1712–1786), 820Free
assemblage, 1711
at last, 547
disappearance of f. enterprise, 141
discussion, 414
expression of thought, 1642
from ruinous discords, 915
government is … what the people think, 774
Happy are all f. peoples, 1233
hope for the salvation of f. government, 506
huddled masses yearning to breathe f., 1770
let me live f. from solicitude, 376
limitations placed upon the right of f. speech, 673
man first and an American second, 1396
market, 169
means to be brave, 1948
no land f., that holds one fettered slave, 1695
Not to be safe, but f., 1474
Only the strong can be f., 1774
preservation of a f. government, 489
privilege of living in a f. community, 1191
privilege to be f., 645
set a country f., 665
society, 653, 1719
speech, 1711
suppresses f. speech, 1653
system of government, 738
these people [blacks] are to be f., 1576
till all are f., 1350
to do his best and be his best, 1081
to live or to die f., 886
westward I go f., 657
without f. speech, 672Freedom, 639–669
abridgment of the f. of the people, 523
altar of f., 370
as the principal means of action, 2045
be vigilant in its preservation, 663
better to die with f. than without it, 1721
cannot be censored into existence, 640
cannot be legislated into existence, 640
cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant, 640
citadel of f., 65
Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national f., 319
defending f. in its hour of maximum danger, 661
defense of, 660–666
favor f. and yet deprecate agitation, 443
final sacrifice for life and f., 660
fires of f. … burn low, 654
from fear, 655
from want, 655
guardian of our f., 1030
has to be remade and re-earned in each generation of man, 666
hazard all the f. of America, 1626
if F. and Communism were to compete for man’s allegiance, 692
inner light in which f. lives, 350
is … a continuing evolving process, 960
is fragile if citizens are ignorant, 493
is never granted; it is won, 960
is slavery, 1962
is the mean of those / Extremes, 659
let no man / Call this the land of f., 1695
man who will not defend his f. does not deserve to be free, 663
No man is entitled to the blessings of f., 663
of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos, 639
of art, 2082
of expression, 169
of man and mind, 463
of revision, 183
of speech and expression, 655
of speech is useless without f.
of thought, 441
of the press, 676
of thought, 441
of worship, 655
only freedom which deserves the name, 650
principles of f., 394
Responsibility was the price every man must pay for f., 643
Those who deny f. to others deserve it not for themselves, 648
Those who expect to reap the blessings of f., must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it, 664
to preserve the f. of the human mind, 676
to speak, 677
to the free, 1701
to the slave, 1701
to worship God in his own way, 655
transmit that F. to their Children, 644
watchmen on the walls of world f., 662
will not survive, 1861Freedom of religion, 667–670
See also Statute of Virginia for Religious FreedomFreedom of speech, 671–681
and expression, 655
can be maintained only by promoting debate, 677
is to representative government, 1573
may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter, 679
suppresses free speech, 1653
too destructive of freedom of expression, 167
was the greatest safety, 681Freedoms
four essential human f., 655Freemen
as slaves in breeding compared with f., 1016
only dictator that f. acknowledge, 1196
only security which f. desire, 1196French
aid, F. armies and F. gallantry, 897Frenchman
watch-word of every F., 886Friday’s
child is loving and giving, 200Friend
best f. a man has in this world, 446
Give me one f., just one, who meets / The needs of all my varying moods, 683
no f. like the old f., 1814
one f. remaining and that one shall be down inside me, 1683
serve to keep the world thy f., 1805
support any f., 1066
to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road, 685
without treachery, 820Friends
best f. I have got are Communists, 249
expense of your f., 1373
happiest business in all the world is that of making f., 684
laughter and the love of f., 682
make them [my enemies] my f., 689
most constant of f., 130
my glory was I had such f., 690
Never explain, your f. do not need it, 686
[no one] Had quite such pleasant f. as mine, 682
nor f. to sponge, 1407Friends, Society of. See Society of Friends.Friendship, 682–690
honest f. with all nations, 619
is precious, 687
treacherous in private f., 1976
voice of f., 1459Friendship’s
he who gives in f. name shall reap what he has spent, 684From
bad to worse, 177Front
An iron curtain is drawn down upon their f., 234
lean and lonely f. line, 1555
second f., 2067–2068Frontier
New F., 97
of America is on the Rhine, 2064
of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste, 1654Froth
on the top, 536Fruitful
and delightsome land, 189Frustrating
[Ike will] find it very f., 1514Frustration
nor f. is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy, 1895
where there is injustice and f. the potentialities for violence are greater, 1894Fuel
of interest to the fire of genius, 1535Fuels
squandering the capital of … fossil f., 309Fulfillment
moments of unutterable f., 922Futility
dangers of f., 902
sense of f., 1717Fury
sound and the f. of our history, 556Future, 691–698
belongs to those who understand the hopes and fears of masses in ferment, 1618
claims of the F., 2090
days, which we seek to make secure, 655
dipt into the f., 2038
each generation wastes a little more of the f., 833
he [Emerson] predicted becomes a past, 1297
I have been over into the f., 696
judgment of the f. as well as the past, 1604
look to the f., 692, 1294
men of the f., 1076
mysteries of the f., 41
neither man nor nation can prosper unless … thought is … taken for the f., 312
no way of judging the f. but by the past, 571
nothing matters more to the f. of our country, 493
of this Nation, 2096
playing Providence not only for themselves but for the far f., 1361
say for ourselves what shall be true for the f., 1295
scaffold sways the f., 1838
schemes of f. felicity, 1195
times will hardly know how great a life / This simple stone commemorates, 549
unwilling even to leave the f. flexible, 1361
we know nothing of what will happen in the f., but by the analogy of experience, 573
westward as into the f., 658
will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity, 1963
world of the f., 2036Future’s
attempt the F. portal, 1838Gain
putting g. over national honor, 226Gains
no g. without pains, 85Gallows
die on the g. or of the pox, 372Gallup Poll
temperamental atmosphere of a G. P., 1554Game
grotesque and knavish g., 1039
how you played the G., 1993
Politics is a fascinating g., 1430Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) (1869–1948), 917