Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

“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)

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)