Famous quotes containing the words period and/or government:
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)