Indexed in the public record
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Dec. 21, 1855.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5ef1845ba82c2d70eda8addf218c1e585fe8b6354a507a536972eab1750f4773
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone;…”
William Wordsworth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“For this thing was not done in a corner.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
Sir James Mackintosh
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.”
George Chapman
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to…”
Abraham Lincoln
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.