John James Ingalls Quotes

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A state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

John James Ingalls

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

John James Ingalls

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

John James Ingalls

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

John James Ingalls

Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it [grass] withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring.

John James Ingalls