Famous quotes containing the words permanent, road and/or track:
“There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancementimprovement in conditionis the order of things in a society of equals.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (17461794)
“He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally and politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)