Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr Kingwas an American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and Freemason. Starr King spoke zealously in favor of the Union and was credited by Abraham Lincoln with preventing California from becoming a separate republic. He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth17 December 1824
CountryUnited States of America
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The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
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Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
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What a privilege it is to be an American!
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The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.
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I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.
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The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
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What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.