Famous quotes containing the words daggett, brook and/or township:
“I guess you know, Bob, that if I see you again, Im just going to start shooting and figure its self-defense.”
—David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman)
“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to its power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)