"Staunchly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surroundings. But it is still hard to sell to average rural and small-town populations, who have always been able to take trees, views, clean water, and elbow room for granted, and hence can maintain the staunchly individualistic view that anyone ought to be able to do whatever he likes with his land, that growth is good, and that anything that interferes with any manifestation of it is bad. Therefore, too often ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
... assumed a leading place in the discussion of all public matters. Although he had not taken even the first step toward naturalization, he was active in the constantly sizzling political life of the town, and along all that side of Main street there was none more staunchly and violently Republican ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly |
