Important Offices

Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:

    What is more important in a library than anything else—than everything else—is the fact that it exists.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    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)