Famous quotes containing the words national, party and/or leader:
“Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have Gods right to come.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“[John] Broughs majority is glorious to behold. It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first mannot the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truthis next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)