Famous quotes containing the words union and/or law:
“I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this ... great and important national act.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)