Favor

Famous quotes containing the word favor:

“My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Look with favor on a bold enterprise.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the tracts which favor that theory.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)