Bran

“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Get off this estate."
"What for?"
"Because it's mine."
"Where did you get it?"
"From my father."
"Where did he get it?"
"From his father."
"And where did he get it?"
"He fought for it."
"Well, I'll fight you for it.”
― Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems

“They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad”
― William Shakespeare

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays