Mile Limit

Famous quotes containing the words mile and/or limit:

    “We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Greatness collapses of itself: such limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous states.”
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)