Whitman County

Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or county:

“I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)