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So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation. – William Richardson Davie	added by Normando 4 months ago
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 1 year ago
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty. – Marvin Cooley	added by Normando 3 years ago
From day one, the wretched Washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election. They're trying, they're not getting very far. They want to erase your vote like it never existed. They want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future, but they will fail, because in America the people rule again, this is nothing but a partisan witch hunt, sabotage. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The situation is wretched. – Interim Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Who would have ever dreamed that there would be someone willing to dedicate their time, their materials, you know, to freeing us from a wretched, dark past, you know? But I thank God for Jen, I thank God for Survivor's Ink, I thank God for the chance to be that survivor. – Angela Ritter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. – George Lucas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth! – Edith Wharton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy? – La Fontaine	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort?he is not so wretched as he deserves. – R Chamberlain	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer, The Iliad	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – Leonardo Da Vinci	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. – J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. – Titus Maccius Plautus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) – Lucius Accius Telephus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. – Samuel Hoffenstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship. – Marie Dressler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis Celine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. – Virgil	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

– William Richardson Davie

added by Normando
4 months ago

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
1 year ago

We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.

– Marvin Cooley

added by Normando
3 years ago

From day one, the wretched Washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election. They're trying, they're not getting very far. They want to erase your vote like it never existed. They want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future, but they will fail, because in America the people rule again, this is nothing but a partisan witch hunt, sabotage.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The situation is wretched.

– Interim Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Who would have ever dreamed that there would be someone willing to dedicate their time, their materials, you know, to freeing us from a wretched, dark past, you know? But I thank God for Jen, I thank God for Survivor's Ink, I thank God for the chance to be that survivor.

– Angela Ritter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

– George Lucas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

– Edith Wharton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

– La Fontaine

added by anonymous
12 years ago

If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort?he is not so wretched as he deserves.

– R Chamberlain

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

– Homer, The Iliad

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

– Leonardo Da Vinci

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.

– J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe