American revolution Quote by George Washington

“Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's not enough…

— Lynn Kurland

“He imagines that when I see him indefatigable I'll regret my decision. Such is his miserable scheme. As though I were short of slaves!”

— Samuel Beckett

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when…

— Teresa Denys

“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we…

— Albert Camus

“Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of…

— Adam Clayton Powell

“Sad as the position of a slave is, my uncle’s hardness of heart added much to the unhappiness of those who had the misfortune…

— Victor Hugo

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his,…

— Jean-Marie Deguignet

“The lazy man is the slave of his own feelings. His body is his master; not his servant. He is the slave of circumstances.”

— William Dewitt Hyde

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell