“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .” IfsImportantEarthNationsSuccessfulCenturyAddSatisfactionKingdomsObservationAccomplishmentEnterpriseEnlightenedQuota Author:Kalakaua
“I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.” BelieveDifferentEndsSelfDreamRealityEarthNamesI BelieveSuccessfulStartingHaving FunBeing SuccessfulAmerican DreamStarting Point Author:David Platt
“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?” WorldHeartDoeLightEarthGivenLibertySuccessfulCreationCommunicationBearsLaborIndependenceInstitutionsBurdenCornersWitnessImpulseRangeOperationsRegionsThis DayEstablishmentContinentsOppressedIndependence DayYokeNew Hope Book:Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878 Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878
“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.” WayHas BeensEarthTurnsPoorSuccessfulRichDown AndLondonMiserableHopefulDespondent Book:A Star Danced Source: A Star Danced