Original Bear Flag

Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:

    “That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or another, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. For, in certain moods, no man can weigh this world, without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
    Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

    Bravest of all in Frederick town,
    She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)