Famous quotes containing the words august and/or von:
“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)
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)