Government Controlled Area

Famous quotes containing the words government, controlled and/or area:

    “Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)