Command Entire Period

Famous quotes containing the words command, entire and/or period:

“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)

“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)