Famous quotes containing the words northern, crusades, crusade and/or campaign:
“Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every state which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the northern forests who were.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.”
—J.G. (John Gabriel)
“This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.”
—Harold Wilson, Lord Riveaulx (1916–1995)
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
—Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)
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