Mission

Famous quotes containing the word mission:

“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)

“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)