1909

Explore 11 quotes from the year 1909

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Topic

Freedom Oppression Political theory

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. George W. Jacobs and Company, 1909, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. Routledge, 2015, ch. 13.

We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Assassination Censorship

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama. 10 Apr. 1909, Abby Theatre of Dublin, Liverpool, England, UK, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Playlets. Oxford University Press, 2021, pt. 1.

I have got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt's expressing his view of the presidency.

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Topic

American Presidency American politics

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

The Outlook

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. The Outlook. 27 Feb. 1909.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

On the Ford Model T.

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Topic

Consumer choice Cars

Author

Henry Ford

Source

My Life and Work

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ford, Henry and Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. Doubleday, 1922, ch. 4.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

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Topic

New York City

Author

John Jay Chapman

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chapman, John Jay. Emerson and Other Essays. Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909, preface.

Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

G.K. Chesterton

Tremendous Trifles

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Topic

Jury system

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The Twelve Men Tremendous Trifles

Medium

Essay

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Twelve Men." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen, 1909.

The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft

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Topic

Black Americans Americans

Speaker

William Howard Taft

Source

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

Andre Gide

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Topic

Happiness

Author

Andre Gide

Source

Strait is the Gate

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. La Porte Etroite [Strait is the Gate]. Mercure de France, 1909, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. Strait is the Gate. Penguin Books, 2001, ch. 5.

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Diversity of religion Religion

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

Hind Swaraj

Genre

Anti-colonial literature

Language

Gujarati

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule." Indian Opinion, 1909

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj." Gandhi: "Hind Swaraj" and Other Writings, edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft

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Topic

Bill of Rights Civil rights American politics

Speaker

William Howard Taft

Source

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.