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)

    “Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)