Township/israel

Famous quotes containing the words township and/or israel:

    “A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)