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My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
~ Kahlil Gibran Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
~ Horace, Epistles Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
~ Horace God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
~ Kahlil Gibran All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
~ George Santayana The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it.
~ Philip Henry Gosse, 1857 Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
~ Johann Georg von Zimmermann In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ?Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
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