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“America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.”

World Should Has Beens America Found Land Tongue New World Continents New Life

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.”

Names Land Praise Creator Tongue Arise Redeemer

Author:Isaac Watts

“Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.”

Wells Life Is Lord Land Speech Skins Tongue Rising Majesty Thyself Distinguished Underworld Nile Makest

Author:Akhenaton

“The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.”

Men Firsts Speak Millions Land Argument Presses Silent Productions Tongue Instant Lightning Thunder Steam Grievance Snowflake

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.”

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

“She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave.”

Hands Eye Faces Young Land Goodness Anger Brave Tongue Graves Cheeks Serpent Sneer Haggard

Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.”

Said Soul Wanted President Cities Brain Half Land Holy Angel Tongue Bullets Abraham Saviour Footprint Jerusalem Assassins Holy Land

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.”

Ifs May Opportunity Language Given Understanding Study Land Tongue Acquire Foreign Language

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley