Richard Price Quotes


Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.


Citations

Price, Richard. The Wanderers. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

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Richard Price
Richard Price
  • Born: February 23, 1723
  • Died: April 19, 1791
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Richard Price FRS was a Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer, pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between many people, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Mirabeau and the Marquis de Condorcet. According to the historian John Davies, Price was "the greatest Welsh thinker of all time".