Famous quotes containing the words vague and/or objects:
“I know not what the younger dreams
Some vague Utopiaand she seems,
When withered old and skeleton-gaunt,
An image of such politics.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)