Best 7 quotes of John Sherman on MyQuotes

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.