Construction Begins

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)

“and of my distrusting self
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say it for two sons gone,
say nightmare, say it loud
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nightmare begins responsibility.”
—Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)