Bell Basis

Famous quotes containing the words bell and/or basis:

“The one who should remove the bell is the one who hung it up.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)