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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 4 |
| AUTHOR: | John Galsworthy (1867–1933) |
| QUOTATION: | Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN GALSWORTHY, “Errantry,” stanza 1, The Collected Poems of John Galsworthy, p. 1 (1934). |
| SUBJECTS: | Action |
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