Hold Office

Famous quotes containing the words hold office, hold and/or office:

    “The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “History
    Coming too close
    Is monstrous, like a doll
    That is alive and bigger than the child
    Who tries to hold it.”
    —Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)

    “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)