Famous quotes containing the words baron lane, baron and/or lane:
“Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband—it creeps up insidiously ... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realises that it is gone.”
—Baron Lane (b. 1918)
“My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore.”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)
“Making the best of things is ... a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand [ellipses in source].”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)