No One and One Hundred Thousand

Famous quotes containing the words one and/or thousand:

    “It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)