Famous quotes containing the words peasant, popular and/or union:
“The lord is the peasant that was,
The peasant is the lord that shall be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Just try to prove youre not a camel!”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be the Union as it was.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)