Icy Quotes
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers. 1789-1794”, p.366
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.245
I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.16, Read Books Ltd
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books
[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
William Buchanan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2004). “Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art”, p.20, Rutgers University Press