Robert Sidney Foster (1913–2005) British Colonial governor
Address opening Fiji's first parliamentary session as an independent nation (excerpts)
“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
Letter to George Washington (1796); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., (1903-04), 9:341
1790s
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Context: It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
