Popular Front Government

Famous quotes containing the words popular, front and/or government:

    It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    You did not expect to find such spruce trees in the wild woods, but they evidently attend to their toilets each morning even there. Through such a front yard did we enter that wilderness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
    James Madison (1751–1836)