Famous quotes containing the words man and/or battle:
“A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years. Yet, if he ever favorably attends to them, he may be overcome by their beauty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Websters Fugitive-Slave Bill.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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