Famous quotes containing the words capitol, reef and/or national:
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884)
“Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
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