Equal Footing

Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or footing:

    “Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Flowers laugh before thee upon their beds
    And fragrance in thy footing treads;
    Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;
    And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)