Providing Material Support

Famous quotes containing the words providing, material and/or support:

    “The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)