Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.”
—James Clavell (b. 1924)
“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)