Persons Generally

Famous quotes containing the words persons and/or generally:

“Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power of persons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)