Historic Flight Foundation

Famous quotes containing the words historic, flight and/or foundation:

    “The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
    The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
    When I see o’er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.

    And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
    their goods;
    And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
    armed men.”
    —Bertrans De Born (fl. 12th century)

    “Laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)