Famous quotes containing the words fired, power and/or plants:
“Cursed be the hand that fired the shot,
The frenzied brain that hatched the plot,
Thy countrys Father slain
By thee, thou worse than Cain!”
—Richard Henry Stoddard (18251903)
“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
—Jean Genet (19101986)