Imperative Present

Famous quotes containing the words imperative and/or present:

“To me Americanism means ... an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.”
—Meyer London (1871–1926)

“If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)