Famous quotes containing the words national, grand and/or master:
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“He may have been a master of his fate,
And of his atoms,—ready as another
In his emergence to exonerate
His father and his mother;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)