Famous quotes containing the words american and/or practical:
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)
“Whether there be any such moral principles, wherein all men do agree, I appeal to any, who have been but moderately conversant in the history of mankind, and looked abroad beyond the smoke of their own chimneys. Where is that practical truth, that is universally received without doubt or question, as it must be, if innate?”
—John Locke (16321704)