“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.” MenWorldStillsAmericaPurposeStrongLibertyPrinciplesExampleGrewEqualWeakInspiredTyrannyAlternativesRevolutionaryThis DayRepublicDedicatedNeverthelessSurvivedPropositionsAbiding Author:Ronald Reagan
“Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.” StillsHandsStepsColdWeakBreathsBillsWinterTeethDullChillBeardScarce Book:The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues Source: The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues
“Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.” WorldStillsPainWhiteKnowingThis WorldWeakMortalityShroudsFoldingPleats Author:Denise Levertov
“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?” MenWorldHeartLittlesArtStillsEnoughPoorWeakWideThee Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems