Famous quotes containing the words jesse, helms, senate and/or term:
“They robbed the Danville train.
And the people they did say, for many miles away,
Twas the outlaws Frank and Jesse James.”
—Unknown. Jesse James (l. 68)
“The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks; many a poets stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)