Missouri Presidential Preference

Famous quotes containing the words missouri, presidential and/or preference:

    “The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
    —Basil Hume (b. 1923)