Alexander Bryan Johnson Quote

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.


The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)


We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and...

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and...

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and...

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and...