Famous quotes containing the words cost and/or certainty:
“This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Some of us were ambivalent, but we dont do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)