Famous quotes containing the words common, long and/or haul:
“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The brawniest will not beat back the storm
Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)