Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or era:
“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)