Fire Nation

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or nation:

“The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, “This is God’s hat.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)