His Own Ground Quotes
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior… — George Washington
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own… — Henry David Thoreau
- Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. — Alexander Pope