Public Waters

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or waters:

    Instead of offering the Indians a chance to surrender, and to be taken peaceably, General Connor issued a very cruel order to his men—’Take no prisoners, fight to the death; nits breed lice.’
    State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    For my desert, I helped myself to a large slice of the Chesuncook woods, and took a hearty draught of its waters with all my senses.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)