Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:
“We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and cant take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum majors uniform on.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“He is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in working the great machine of government erected for their use, and consequently subject to their superintendence.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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