Stair Mountain National

Famous quotes containing the words stair, mountain and/or national:

    “I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare
    This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestrail stair;
    That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
    And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)

    “We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)