Famous quotes containing the words god and/or appointed:
“Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days—too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart—our battle-drum.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are, what the should be, burthens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring with them intense labor and great private loss.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)