Famous quotes containing the words south and/or american:
“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)