Famous quotes containing the words false, light and/or claim:
“... that phrase of mischievous sophistry, all men are born free and equal. This false and futile axiom, which has done, is doing, and will do so much harm to this fine country ...”
—Frances Trollope (17801863)
“Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavnly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (18161902)
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