Kansas Nebraska Act

Famous quotes containing the words kansas, nebraska and/or act:

    “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.... Now I know we’re not in Kansas.”
    —Noel Langley (1898–1981)

    “What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All things are lawful there that may delight
    Nature or unrestrained appetite.
    Like and enjoy, to will and act is one;
    We only sin when love’s rites are not done.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)