Proposed Northern Extension

Famous quotes containing the words proposed, northern and/or extension:

    “There is no legislation—I care not what it is—tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “‘Tis the perception of the beautiful,
    A fine extension of the faculties,
    Platonic, universal, wonderful,
    Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies,
    Without which life would be extremely dull.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)