#wish

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#friendship #i #i wish #mankind #may

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #certain #government #i #i wish

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#enemy #generally #says #wishes

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fear #i #truth #unknown #which

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#enough #i #never #see #seen

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. ↗

— Billy Joel

#fool #i #less #man #more

I never wish for critics. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #never #wish

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#closer #concerned #enough #enough is enough #every

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#could #deeply #enjoyed #father #generously