Patriot/fiction

Famous quotes containing the words patriot and/or fiction:

“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)