Base Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or ratio:

    “Report of fashions in proud Italy,
    Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
    Limps after in base imitation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)