Government Departments Charged

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

    “Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “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)

    “The last alternatives they face
    Of face, without the life to save,
    Being from all salvation weaned
    A stag charged both at heel and head:
    Who would come back is turned a fiend
    Instructed by the fiery dead.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)