Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.


Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen (ed. 1824)

Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called,...

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called,...

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called,...

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called,...