Allegany County Lost

Famous quotes containing the words county and/or lost:

    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)

    Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)