Famous quotes containing the words act and/or government:
“Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them, and seeing it bravely for the nothing it is. Beware of the man who says, “I am on the eve of a revelation.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)