National Spiritual Assembly

Famous quotes containing the words national, spiritual and/or assembly:

    Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    The true shepherd of his flock, the majesty of whose spiritual authority awed even the unscrupulous enemy.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)