Famous quotes containing the words von, statesman and/or canal:
“Sweetly sang the nightingale.”
—Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)
“A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.”
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)