Constitution River

Famous quotes containing the words constitution and/or river:

“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)