Other "fourth Branches"
- Federal Reserve (central bank of the United States)
- Office of the Independent Counsel (or its successor the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel)
- Office of Personnel Management (The civil service)
- Freemasons (during the 19th century when Americans thought secret societies had immense power)
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Famous quotes containing the words fourth and/or branches:
“All night I’ve held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)