Famous quotes containing the words rope, mill and/or road:
“Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.”
—Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (18201887)
“The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposeswill find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
—John Stuart Mill (18061873)
“They keep such a dingdong about supporting the Constitution. One might imagine it was some miserable, decrepit old creature that was no longer able to totter on crutches but must be held on every side, and dragged along like a drunken loafer, on his road to the lock-up.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884)
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