Famous quotes containing the words condition and/or positive:
“Now, at the end of three years struggle the nations condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like tothis art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustnt it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?”
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (18011866)