Red Barricades

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or barricades:

    “The sable presbyters approach
    The avenue of penitence;
    The young are red and pustular
    Clutching piaculative pence.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)