Famous quotes containing the words southern, moat and/or system:
“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Our moat around us is no more a moat,
Our continent no more a moated castle.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)