Famous quotes containing the words house and/or sold:
“A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that “the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.””
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“The rich man ... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)