Famous quotes containing the words ball and/or ground:
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)