Third Party System/fourth Party System 1896-1932

Famous quotes containing the words party, system and/or fourth:

    Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The fourth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Four colly birds,
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 13–15)