Famous quotes containing the words stanley, baldwin, government and/or january:
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)