American Iron

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or iron:

“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)