Liberal Talk

Famous quotes containing the words liberal and/or talk:

“I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country’s God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)