John James Ingalls Quotes

• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

  John James Ingalls

  Stars, Difficulty, Ads

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

  John James Ingalls

  Happiness, Acquisition, Environment

  John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”

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• I knock unbidden once at every gate--
  If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
  And they who follow me reach every state
  Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
  Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
  Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
  Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
  I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Sleep, Fate, Opportunity

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• Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

  John James Ingalls

  Men, Circles, Can Not

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• I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Answers, Return

  John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”

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• The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

  John James Ingalls

  Dream, Politics, Iridescent

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

  John James Ingalls

  Two, Three, Tides

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• Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

  John James Ingalls

  Men, Two, Switzerland

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

  John James Ingalls

  Nature, Flower, Sea

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• I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

  John James Ingalls

  Kings, Home, Fate

  Speach in the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1880.

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• The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

  John James Ingalls

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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