Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,
I look where he lies white-faced and still in the
coffinI draw near,
Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)