Vermillion County

Famous quotes containing the words vermillion and/or county:

    Near vermillion one gets stained red; near ink one gets stained black.
    Chinese proverb.

    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)