Government Departments Charged

Famous quotes containing the words government, departments and/or charged:

    “The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
    —John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850)

    “A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Luna presence,
    foredoomed, already dying,
    it charged the room
    with plangency

    older than human
    cries,”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)