Quotes About Unity

All the exquisite influences of the hour trembled in their veins, and drew them to each other as the loosened leaves were drawn to the earth.

I want our life to be like a house with all the windows lit.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

The conventionality of the tribe is far more important than the happiness of the individual. In fact, the happiness of the individual ideally should rest in perpetrating the conventionality of the tribe.

He and she belonged to each other for always: he understood that now. The impulse which had first drawn them together again, in spite of reason, in spite of themselves almost, that deep-seated instinctive need that each had of the other, would never again wholly let them go.

The drawing-room door opened, and two high-stocked and ample-coated young men came in—two Jim Ralstons, so to speak. Delia had never before noticed how much her husband and his cousin Joe were alike: it made her feel how justified she was in always thinking of the Ralstons collectively.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.

But liberty, when men act in bodies, is power.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents', on April 23, 1770: 'When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

whether the American people knew where they were driving." He suspected they did not, "but that they might still be driving or drifting unconsciously to some point in thought, as their solar system was said to be drifting towards some point in space; and that, possibly, if relations enough could be observed, this point might be fixed. Chicago was the first expression of American thought as a unity; one must start there.

Any black or red man who could win admission to "the fellowship of the doers" was superior to the white man who failed. Roosevelt's long-term dream was nothing more or less than the general, steady, self-betterment of the multicolored American nation.

Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!

As he waved at grizzled old Southerners, and they in turn waved the Stars and Stripes back at him, Roosevelt reflected that only thirty-three years before these men had been enemies of the Union.44 It took war to heal the scars of war; attack upon a foreign power to bring unity at home. But what future war would heal the scars of this one?

four of us slept in the one bed, two at the bottom and two at the top. All of us tossed and turned and raved in our sleep.

All of our time, energy, and money go into keeping people away from us, into building up walls. What if we didn't do that? What if we became part of the world around us? What if we used all of that time, energy, and money for something else? For a greater good? We would no longer be people who were only worth a trash bag full of ransom money. We would be people who were worth something real.

If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp. Whatsoever walls he has determined to level with the ground, our hands are ready to work the engines: nor shall we hesitate, should the name of the devoted city be Rome itself.

Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

But the obedience of the Roman world was uniform, voluntary, and permanent.

A future where people worked together and utilized science and reason and logic to try and solve problems, instead of just blowing things up.

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people

By 1787, four years since the United States secured its independence, Washington had come to believe that the country faced as grave a threat from internal forces of disunion in the mid-1780s as it had from external ones of tyranny in the mid-1770s, when he accepted leadership of the patriot army at the outset of the Revolutionary War.

Whatever you do, keep your family together. That's the most important thing in the world.