Famous quotes containing the words charlotte, american and/or revolution:
“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon—we have the stars.”
—Casey Robinson, screenwriter. Irving Rapper. Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis)
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)