Famous quotes containing the words west, england and/or franchise:
“Out where the handclasps a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
Thats where the West begins.”
—Arthur Chapman (18731935)
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (18421906)
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