Famous quotes containing the words states, air and/or force:
“If the dignity as well as the prestige and influence of the United States are not to be wholly sacrificed, we must protect those who, in foreign ports, display the flag or wear the colors of this Government against insult, brutality, and death, inflicted in resentment of the acts of their Government, and not for any fault of their own.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)
“I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.”
—William Cobbett (17621835)
“Freedom is a mans natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
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