Frases de John Hay

John Milton Hay foi um estadista, diplomata, escritor e jornalista estadunidense, além de ter sido assistente e secretário particular de Abraham Lincoln. Foi o 37º Secretário de Estado dos Estados Unidos.

Está sepultado no Lake View Cemetery. Wikipedia

✵ 8. Outubro 1838 – 1. Julho 1905

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John Hay: Frases em inglês

“At my door the Pale Horse stands
To carry me to unknown lands.”

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"The Stirrup Cup", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).

“The people will come to their own at last,—
God is not mocked forever.”

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"The Sphynx of the Tuileries", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).

“He weren't no saint—but at jedgment
I'd run my chance with Jim.
'Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing—
And went for it thar and then;
And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard
On a man that died for men.”

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"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).

“I think that saving a little child
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business
Than loafing around the throne.”

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"Little Breeches", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).

“Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.”

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From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.

“He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.”

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"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).