River Bandits

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or bandits:

    I am advised that there is an unexpended balance of about $45,000 of the fund appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by flood upon the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be given to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of the poorer people in Oklahoma.
    Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)