Famous quotes containing the words write and/or protect:
“There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)