Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that’s so important nowadays.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“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)