Degree East Longitude

Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or east:

    “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.”
    —Dee Brown (b. 1908)