Famous quotes containing the words close, protection and/or service:
“But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
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