Famous quotes containing the words land and/or purchase:
“To-day ... when material prosperity and well earned ease and luxury are assured facts from a national standpoint, womans work and womans influence are needed as never before; needed to bring a heart power into this money getting, dollar-worshipping civilization; needed to bring a moral force into the utilitarian motives and interests of the time; needed to stand for God and Home and Native Land versus gain and greed and grasping selfishness.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion,
And buy mens voices to commend our deeds.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)