"Why will we be imposed on by..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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“I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.”
“We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.”
“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”