Famous quotes containing the words washington, state, early and/or history:
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“For with this desire of physical beauty mingled itself early the fear of death—the fear of death intensified by the desire of beauty.”
—Walter Pater 1839–1894, British writer, educator. originally published in Macmillan’s Magazine (Aug. 1878)
“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)