Famous quotes containing the words english and/or garrison:
“We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry. For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)