Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Artemas Ward

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Artemas Ward.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Artemas Ward was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country."

American - Politician | November 26, 1727 - October 28, 1800

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We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Artemas Ward

I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

Artemas Ward

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Artemas Ward

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

Artemas Ward

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Artemas Ward

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

Artemas Ward

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

Artemas Ward

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

Artemas Ward

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

Artemas Ward

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.

Artemas Ward

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

Artemas Ward

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

Artemas Ward