1688 Quotes

#1. GUY FAWKES; OR, A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE GUNPOWDER TREASON, A.D. 1605; WITH A DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSPIRATORS, AND SOME NOTICES OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. BY THE REV. THOMAS LATHBURY, M.A.,

Thomas Lathbury

#2. A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

Linda Colley

#3. The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.

Charles Duhigg

#5. is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude." Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet

Robert Courtade

#6. perhaps as profoundly as the original had in 1688.2

Iain Macwhirter

#7. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

George Bancroft

#8. The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

Bernard Bailyn

#9. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

John Arbuthnot

#10. If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. I watch him throw his head back in supreme happiness, like he's hearing that he gets to choose the colors for all the sunsets from now on.

Jandy Nelson

#12. Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

Jonathan Lethem

#13. No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Nancy Northup

#14. I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

Joe Cornish

#15. The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet." Now

Jon Ronson

#16. Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.

Bernie Sanders

#17. Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Anthony Storr

#18. The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

Plato

#19. What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Anita Elberse

#20. I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Rita Dove

#21. I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

Sean Combs