16 Quotes by John James Ingalls

I answer not, and I return no more.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

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

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.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: “to the stars through difficulties”.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman’s cottage, the King of England could not.