Gates

Famous quotes containing the word gates:

    We set this nation up ... to vindicate the rights of man. We did not name any differences between one race and another. We opened our gates to all the world and said: “Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.”
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There’s freedom at thy gates and rest
    For Earth’s downtrodden and oppressed,
    William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)