Public Accounts

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or accounts:

“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)