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)

    “The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
    Nor heavy knitting of the brow
    Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
    And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
    No government appointed him.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)