Van Buren State

Famous quotes containing the words van buren, van, buren and/or state:

    ““Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you—but my friends never leave me.””
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
    The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
    They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
    Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
    Dieman’s Land.”
    —Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)

    “There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.”
    —Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)

    “Boys, when you see the enemy, fire and then run, and as I am a little lame, I will run now.”
    —For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)