Sitting Governor

Famous quotes containing the words sitting and/or governor:

“The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.”
—Paul Fussell (b. 1924)

“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)