Federal District Quotes

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!