Famous quotes containing the word claim:
“I have been searching history to see if really a woman has any precedent to claim the right to have her rights, and I am compelled to say that we men are not so much ahead of women after all, and the only way we have kept our reputation up is by keeping her downand dont you forget it!”
—George E. Foster, U.S. womens magazine contributor. The Womans Magazine, pp. 38-41 (October 1886)
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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