Famous quotes containing the words essential and/or clement:
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
—Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)
“Clinging close with the crush of the Python,
When she maketh her murderous meal!”
—Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)