Frederick Law Olmsted Quotes


"This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps."
- Frederick Law Olmsted
(Related: Work, Thought, Strength, Labor, Night)

"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."
- Frederick Law Olmsted
(Related: Power, Truth, Possession, Sensibility, World)