Edwin Edwards Quotes
In the next 20 years every major metropolitan area in America with a population of a million or more will have some form of a casino.
Edwin W. Edwards, Louisiana Governor (Democrat), August 25, 1993
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Roman citizenship had been reserved only for Romans. However, when Caesar spend extended time in Cleopatra’s Alexandria, he saw the effect of having a great center of learning in a city. It not only improved the quality of life, but the economic effect was profound as even though Rome was the most powerful Empire of the world, Alexandria was much larger, wealthier, and better developed. It was an effect not unlike that of a great university made throughout Europe later and America today. The scholars and intellectuals in sufficient numbers acted like a modern incubator.
Most "clerks" were then members of the clergy.
Nations come and go—are born and die, but generally the cities remain as part of the new state or empire.
Edwin Washington Edwards is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th Governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988 and 1992–1996), twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive. He served a total of 16 years in office, the sixth-longest serving gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,784 days.
