Whiskey Tax Quotes

#1. Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

Harold Holzer

#2. I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

John Wyndham

#3. Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#4. If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

Graham Kendall

#5. Now Chloe, Tara, and Maddie were real sisters instead of strangers. Friends, even.

Jill Shalvis

#6. You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

Christina Stead

#7. How easy it is to tell tales!

Denis Diderot

#8. Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

Nora Roberts

#9. Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

#10. It's sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That's all I have to say.

Meg Cabot

#11. If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I

Mercedes Lackey

#12. No known human group ... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#13. No matter how far you run. Or where you hide. To the edge of the earth. Till the end of time. Seasons will change. Centuries will pass. But this truth will always remain: I will track you. Hunt you. Find you. You cannot escape me. It'll be your last ... ? Never. You are mine. You. Are. Mine.

Amber Lynn Natusch

#14. Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)

Eleanor H. Porter