If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
