Weaker Central Government

Famous quotes containing the words weaker, central and/or government:

    “By weaker accents, what’s your praise
    When Philomel her voice doth raise?”
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
    —Anonymous.

    An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)

    “Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)