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Letter "W" » Washington
«An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?»
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
(President, Statesman)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander Graham Bell, amazing, bell, graham, invention, march, patented, Pennsylvania, telephone, telephones, telephone bell, telephone call, Washington
«He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
George, George Washington, in history, purest, Washington
«Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.»
Author: William E. Simon
| About:
Politicians,
Voting
| Keywords:
Politicians, sent, vote, Washington
«I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.»
Author: George Bush
(President)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
California, raised, Texas, the West, Washington, West
«Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics
| Keywords:
swelling, swellings, swells, Washington
«Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| Keywords:
front page, post, The Front, The Front Page, The Washington Post, Washington
«I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
ambitious, hopeful, obviously, opposed, Washington, with success
«Excellence does not begin in Washington.»
«Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
George, George I, George Washington, I.D., Id, IDs, quarter, the George, Washington, whipping
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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