Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or county:
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)