Famous quotes containing the words construction and/or begins:
“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“A man may begin as a bad sound, or even as a bad echo, but he is to be distrusted if he begins as a good echo.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)