Owe

Famous quotes containing the word owe:

“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which we owe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)