Famous quotes containing the words north, oracle and/or road:
“Let north and south—let all Americans—let all lovers of liberty everywhere—join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....
“Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)