Famous quotes containing the words north, oracle and/or road:
“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (1911–1990)
“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)