Famous quotes containing the words gold, mountain and/or rebels:
““The idols have seen lots of poverty,
Snakes and gold and lice,
But not the truth....””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter “Little Prig”;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)