American Political Figure

Famous quotes containing the words american, political and/or figure:

“Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)