Famous quotes containing the words grand, national and/or alliance:
“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)
“It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (18461870)