“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments -- a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation”
Daniel Defoe
“Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel”
Aristotle
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
Walter Benjamin
“I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”
Paul Harvey
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