States Congressman Representing

Famous quotes containing the words states, congressman and/or representing:

    “Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like a—like a congressman at a filibuster.”
    —Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Prof. Frankenstein (Whit Bissell)

    “Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)