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John Hay
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“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all, the distinguishing trait of the American character.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a 1898 letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, quoted in Donald E. Schmidt's The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898-2005 (2005).
“Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
“He never funked and he never lied I reckon he never knowed how.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads, (1871).
“He weren't no saint—but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing— And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads, (1871).
“At my door the Pale Horse stands To carry me to unknown lands.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Stirrup Cup", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
“The people will come to their own at last,— God is not mocked forever.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sphynx of the Tuileries", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Little Breeches", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).