Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.”
—Caroline Bird (b. 1915)
“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)