Whittier Union High

Famous quotes containing the words whittier, union and/or high:

    But he thought of his sisters, proud and cold,
    And his mother, vain of her rank and gold.
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.”
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Like all high functionaries, he deemed it indispensable religiously to sustain his dignity; one of the most troublesome things in the world, and one calling for the greatest self-denial.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)