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John Pierpont
3 quotes
“Stand! the ground's your own, my braves! Will ye give it up to slaves? Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy still? What's the mercy despots feel? Hear it in that battle-peal! Read it on yon bristling steel! Ask it,—ye who will.”
John Pierpont (1785–1866) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren's Address to the American Soldiers" (A Song for the Table, Written for the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825), st. 1. Airs of Palestine, and Other Poems (1840), p. 243
“A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force nor doors nor locks Can shield you,—'t is the ballot-box.”
John Pierpont (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Word from a Petitioner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“From every place below the skies The grateful song, the fervent prayer,— The incense of the heart, —may rise To heaven, and find acceptance there.”
John Pierpont (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.