Famous quotes containing the words alliance and/or government:
“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. Its in the nature of governments to tell lies.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)