Famous quotes containing the words american and/or inventor:
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)