Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Shirley, ch.22.

El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|¤da del imperio espan‹  ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|¤a insospechados† No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa¤  cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan‹  a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio¤  n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown† Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.

-Reyes, Alfonso
Pa¤  ginas escogidas,'Valor de la literatura hispanoamericana' (translated as'TheValue of Hispanic American Literature').

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

-Iron
Women and Labour, ch.1.

   To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

-Steuart (later Denham), SirJames
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

Patriots spring up like mushrooms. I could raise 50 of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratifyan immeasurable or insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

-Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford
  Speech, House of Commons,13 Feb.