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  • Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

    Night   Men   Fire  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

    Heart   Fire   Secret  
    Khalil Gibran, “Love”
  • I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

    Fire   Mouths   Might  
  • O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

    Strong   Fire   Soul  
    James Boswell, John Wain (1994). “The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795”, p.6, Yale University Press
  • Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

    Fire   Religion   Veils  
    'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649
  • Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

    Freedom   War   Fire  
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94
  • My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

    Fire   Earth   Sacred  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

    First Inaugural Address, New York, N.Y., 30 Apr. 1789
  • As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

    "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.
  • Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

    Love Is   Fire   Idols  
  • True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

    George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239
  • A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

    Men   Fire   Soldier  
    Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr
  • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press
  • You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. “I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor—” “So I should call you Gandalf?

    Fire   Flames   Voice  
  • Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

    Brother   Beer   Son  
    James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.496, e-artnow
  • O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

    Music   Fire   Long Ago  
    "O Black and Unknown Bards" l. 1 (1917)
  • See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

    Wise   Gun   Fire  
    Song: Don Quixote, 1975
  • A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

    Heart   Men   Fire  
    Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam
  • Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

    Fire   Inspire   Soul  
    'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11
  • I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

    Hate   Inspiration   Fire  
    Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).
  • True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.374
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