Famous quotes containing the words mill, valley and/or public:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choiceis often the means of their regeneration.”
—John Stuart Mill (18061873)
“Down in the valley,
Valley so low,
Hang your head over,
Hear the train blow.”
—Unknown. Down in the Valley (l. 14)
“Well of all things in the world, I dont suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public weddingmy stars!I should never be able to support it!”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
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