Famous quotes containing the words political and/or crisis:
“He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)