Famous quotes containing the words whittier, union and/or high:
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: It might have been!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
“If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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