Hastings/government

Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or government:

“If you can’t get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
—Max Hastings (b. 1945)

“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)