Obtained

Famous quotes containing the word obtained:

“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon’s mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“... how can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)