Famous quotes containing the words virginia, steele and/or scott:
“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“On thee alone my hope relies;
Beneath thy cross I fall,
My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour, and my all.”
—Anne Steele (1717–1778)
“Only remember—west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)