Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or system:
“The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Websters Fugitive-Slave Bill.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)