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)

“Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man’s society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)