Famous quotes containing the words goethe and/or institute:
“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)