Famous quotes containing the words mexico, city and/or proper:
“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The city mouse lives in a house;
The garden mouse lives in a bower,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (18301894)
“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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