Bells Quote by William Cowper

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

— Jane Swisshelm

“Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!”

— William Shakespeare

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they…

— Anonymous

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and…

— Edward Gibbon

“We knew we did not lay down the direction of the street, but despite that, we could—and must—fashion the way of our walk.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“To pile on the agony, once we reached Shantytown-a collection of shacks around the Exhibition that fed off the scraps of rich tourists—the ribbon…

— Susan Dennard

“Rather than tucking in blankets and buttoning up coats, we must have faith in them to tuck and button on their own. And if…

— Amor Towles

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to legitimize corrupt…

— Pierce Brown

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizen-patriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all…

— Charles Dickens

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character…

— Confucius