Government Began

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or began:

“Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
And show’rs began to fall:
John Barleycorn got up again
And sore surpris’d them all.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)