Bold

Famous quotes containing the word bold:

“The sun came dazzling through the leaves,
And flamed upon the brazen greaves
Of bold Sir Lancelot.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

“The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)