Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.…

— Orrin Hatch

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in…

— William Mountford

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?…

— George Gissing

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

— John Burroughs

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

— Vine Deloria Jr

[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall…

— Alexander Hamilton

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

— Ogden Nash

I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.

— A. J. McLean