Letter Position

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or position:

“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)