Independence Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or mountain:

    “Hail, Columbia! happy land!
    Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
    Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
    Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
    And when the storm of war was gone,
    Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
    Let independence be our boast,
    Ever mindful what it cost;”
    —Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)

    “The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)