Government Departments Charged

Famous quotes containing the words government, departments and/or charged:

    “The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.”
    —Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

    “Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “God, who gave to him the lyre,
    Of all mortals the desire,
    For all breathing men’s behoof,
    Straitly charged him, “Sit aloof;”
    Annexed a warning, poets say,
    To the bright premium,—
    Ever, when twain together play,
    Shall the harp be dumb.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)