Notable Speakers and Visitors
- 1856: Abraham Lincoln
- 1915: Booker T. Washington
- 1934: Norman Thomas
- 1927: Kirby Page
- 1967: Everett M. Dirksen
- 1967: Charles Percy
- 1967: Carl Greenberg
- 1988: Cornel West
- 1992: James Burke (science historian)
- 1992: Dan Quayle
- 1996: William F. Buckley, Jr
- 2009: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 2010: Mae (First U.S. Reunion Performance)
- 2011: Newt Gingrich
- 2011: Sarah Palin
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, speakers and/or visitors:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)