Territory Received Present

Famous quotes containing the words territory, received and/or present:

    “Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discern only law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When winter snows upon thy sable hairs,
    And frost of age hath nipped thy beauties near;
    When dark shall seem thy day that never clears,
    And all lies withered that was held so dear,
    Then take this picture which I here present thee,
    Limned with a pencil not all unworthy;”
    —Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)