Righteous Babe

Famous quotes containing the words righteous and/or babe:

    “I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
    —William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)