#section

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#benefit #congress #day #desire #first

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#astounding #books #bookstore #department #depending

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#confined #his #jackson #means #own

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cross #dinner #formula #get #interesting

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. ↗

— John Callahan

#feminist #humor #section

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#done #i #invited #mornings #performance

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#each #except #isles #laughing #own

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. ↗

— David McCullough

#doing #explain #helpful #how #people

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#front #got #i #keep #keep moving