Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

“There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”
—Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)