Famous quotes containing the words home, rule and/or assembly:
“It aint home t ye, though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow yer soul is sort o wrapped round everything.”
—Edgar Albert Guest (18811959)
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
—James Madison (17511836)
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