Modern Age

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or age:

“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.”
—Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)