Quote#Wisdom
The recitals of atrocities and bad administrations which have of late…
Quote byHenry Morton Stanley · 1841–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II..
English (original)
The recitals of atrocities and bad administrations which have of late been spread about are almost all, if not all, pure reports.
— Henry Morton Stanley
More from Henry Morton Stanley
We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages.
As seen in my loneliness, there was this difference between the Bible and the newspapers. The one reminded one that, apart from God, my life was but a bubble of air, and it bade me remember my Creator; the other fostered arrogance and …
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
The barge was an invention of my own. It was 40 feet long, 6 feet beam, and 30 inches deep, of Spanish cedar 3/8 inches thick.
I desire some generous and opulent philanthropist, who shall permit me a force for commerce in central Africa.
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.