Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or government:
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)