States House Committee

Famous quotes containing the words states, house and/or committee:

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)