Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)