Lay Citizens

Famous quotes containing the words lay and/or citizens:

“grown fully, as they say,
they gave her a ring,
and she wore it like a root
and said to herself,
“To be not loved is the human condition,”
and lay like a statue in her bed.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“With steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old “central ideas” of the Republic. We can do it. The human heart is with us—God is with us. We shall again be able not to declare, that “all States as States, are equal,” nor yet that “all citizens as citizens are equal,” but to renew the broader, better declaration, including both these and much more, that “all men are created equal.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)