Rally Quotes
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to
destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
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More Rally Quotes
Revered monks and people. This public rally is aimed at informing the whole world of the will of the people... Our purpose is to show that the entire people entertain the keenest desire for a multiparty democratic system of government.
Aung San Suu Kyi— First public speech (26 August 1988)
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
thich nhat hanh— Quoted in Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing (1996) by Arnold Kotler, p. 106
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.
horace bushnell— P. 59. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There stands Jackson like a stone wall — rally round the Virginians!
thomas "stonewall" jackson— General Barnard Bee during the First Battle of Bull Run, in an exclamation which was the origin of the nickname "Stonewall Jackson", as quoted in Freedom (1987) by William Safire, p. 60
— Variants:
"I went in a round of the Domain on Saturday morning in a rally car. At the start of it, I was asked if I felt scared. I said, 'certainly not, I have been working with Roger for years'."
david lange— Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.
This film was pivotal in my life, not so much because it was my first successful effort as a producer and director, but because Hitler was so fascinated by this film that he insisted I make a documentary about the Party rally in Nuremberg. The result was Triumph of the Will.
— On The Blue Light: Partly quoted in: Leni Riefenstahl (1992) The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl. p. 210
I feel used. I feel violated and duped over the fact that that turned into nothing more than a political rally.
jesse ventura— After leaving a memorial ceremony for Democratic US Senator Paul Wellstone. (30 October 2002)
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly— "Using a Funeral to Make Political Points", The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News), 9 February 2006 In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom, We will rally from the hill-side, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
— George F. Root, Battle-Cry of Freedom.
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail: A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
martin farquhar tupper— Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy, Of Faith, line 11.
There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. rally behind the Virginians.
thomas "stonewall" jackson— As quoted in Lee's Lieutenants : A Study in Command (1946) by Douglas S. Freeman, Vol. 1, p. 82
Yonder stands Jackson like a stone wall. … rally round the Virginians.
thomas "stonewall" jackson— As quoted in What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War (1998) by Mike Wright
There stands Jackson like a stone wall! rally round the Virginians!
thomas "stonewall" jackson— As quoted in Chancellorsville, 1863: Jackson's Lighting Strike (1998) by Carl Smith, p. 18
rally around the Virginians, there stands Jackson like a stone wall.
thomas "stonewall" jackson— As quoted in 25 Best Civil War Sites (2005) by Clint Johnson, Site 6 : Manassas
The rally Man's patter ran on through the dawnUntil we said so long to his skullShrill yell.
lou reed— Black Angel's Death Song
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! rally behind the Virginians.
— Confederate Gen. Bernard Elliott Bee at the First Battle of Bull Run, in a comment that gave Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson the nickname "Stonewall" (1861).
People of the Philippines, I have returned! By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.... rally to me!
— General Douglas MacArthur, radio broadcast after he landed ashore at Leyte (October 20, 1944).[ ]
Comrades, I hear the track and beating of the enemy's horse-feet, and withal perceive that some of them come in a troop and full body against us. Let us rally and close here, then set forward in order, and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their loss and our honour.
françois rabelais— Chapter 43. (Gargantua (1534))
The dance tradition and its package deal debut have become points around which Indian families rally to guarantee the continuity of Indian values, to reconfirm their Indianness to themselves...and to prepare their daughters to enter middle class Indian-American life.
— By Greenstain and Bhradwaj, 1988 quoted in "Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions" p.98
