America Quote by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

““{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who, with the sword, fought to free from bodily slavery three millions of people, and who has shown the way to intellectual freedom to many millions more . I envy the land that brings forth such glorious fruit as Ingersoll .””

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

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