Early August

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or august:

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)