Famous quotes containing the words battle, plain and/or township:
“A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”
—Ferdinand Foch (18511929)
“If the Almighty had intended for you to be rich, hed have taken care of that a long time ago. The idea of you being rich, thats plain blasphemy.”
—Robert Rossen (19081966)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)