Quotes from The Good Fight — George William Curtis
1824–1892 United States
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I know how subtle, elusive, apparently ineradicable, is the spirit of caste.
The Good Fight (1865)
There is no gentleman in America, but he who feels that every man is his equal in natural right, and who does not know that he is cheated if every man does not have fair play.
The Good Fight (1865)
It is a wise old saw that warns us not to whistle until we are out of the woods.
The Good Fight (1865)
I am no more a child, but a man; no longer a confederacy, but a nation. I am no more Virginia, New York, Carolina, or Massachusetts, but the United States of America.
The Good Fight (1865)
Never fear, true hearts! A people which has shown the quality of its genius as this nation has in the last four years will finish its work. It will go forward and not backward. For our America shall be the Sinai of the nations, and from the terrible thunders and lightnings of its great struggle shall proceed the divine law of liberty that shall subdue and harmonize the world.
The Good Fight (1865)