Native Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or affairs:

    “Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad when I discover, in oceans and wildernesses far away, the material of a million Concords: indeed, I am lost, unless I discover them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.”
    —Allan Massie (b. 1938)