Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:
“He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpoxof which they are very much afraidhaving broken out in Oldtown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.
Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)
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