William Blake, 1757-1827
was an English engraver, illustrator, and poet
When men were first a nation grown,Lawless they liv'd, till wantonnessAnd liberty began t' increase,And one man lay in another's way;Then laws were made to keep fair play.
( Poem “Blind Man's Buff” )
William Ralph Inge, 1860-1954
was an English author and Anglican prelate
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
was a 3rd president of US
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
was a 16th president of US
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
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