In fine, let us recognize that the adoption of my advice will leave us each citizens of a free state, and as such arbiters of our own destiny, able to return good or bad offices with equal effect; while its rejection will make us dependent on others, and thus not only impotent to repel an insult, but on the most favourable supposition, friends to our direst enemies, and at feud with our natural friends.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

When reason begins to cause fear, let us reassure them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

439 Having cleared our ideas thus far, let us return to the original instance of thirst, which has a definite object—drink.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Now, if you think fit, let us return to what we began with.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Having cleared our ideas thus far, let us return to the original instance of thirst, which has a definite object—drink.
— from The Republic by Plato

And now to examine if there is any manner in which this deficiency can be accounted for. Let us remember, then, so far as regards mere thought, that during all that period in the world's existence, and in the progress of cultivation, in which great and fruitful new truths could be arrived at by mere force of genius, with little previous study and accumulation of knowledge—during all that time women did not concern themselves with speculation at all.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

First and foremost, let us remember that the question of being a good American has nothing whatever to do with a man's birthplace any more than it has to do with his creed.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Finally, let us return to our metamorphosis.
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

But on the contrary, every earthly consideration was direct against them; and furthermore let us remember, that the whole hierarchy of the Jews and all the superstition of the Gentiles were in arms against this religion, as I have before observed, nearly 300 years.
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

To conclude; when my Arguments are impartially examin’d, I doubt not but my Readers will join with me, that as long as it is the Nature of Man (and Naturam expellas furca licet usque recurret ) to have a Salt Itch in the Breeches, the Brimstone under the Petticoat will be a necessary Remedy to lay it; and let him be ever so sly in the Application, it will still be found out: What avails it then to affect to conceal that which cannot be concealed, and that which if carried on openly and above-board, would become only less detrimental, and of consequence more justifiable?
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

The nobility of its music does not make this classification absurd, for let us remember that in the greatest of all comic music dramas, "Die Meistersinger," the music is second to none in loftiness of character, [Pg 344] beauty of melody, dignity of color, and splendor of instrumental treatment.
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

THIS MOMENT FORWARD, LET US RESOLVE to cut a passage to the marts of the New World, and, by the abundance of our resources, strike their “Merchant Princes” with admiration and astonishment.
— from The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Garth, 134 the accomplished and benevolent, whom Steele has described so charmingly, of whom Codrington said that his character was “all beauty” , and whom Pope himself called the best of Christians without knowing it; Arbuthnot, 135 one of the wisest, wittiest, most accomplished, [pg 612] gentlest of mankind; Bolingbroke, the Alcibiades of his age; the generous Oxford; the magnificent, the [pg 613] witty, the famous, and chivalrous Peterborough: these were the fast and faithful friends of Pope, the most brilliant company of friends, let us repeat, that the world has ever seen.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray