Government Relation

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or relation:

“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)