Held Fixed

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or fixed:

“There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

“Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)