Congress Lands

Famous quotes containing the words congress and/or lands:

    “Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “The river knows the way to the sea;
    Without a pilot it runs and falls,
    Blessing all lands with its charity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)