Government
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1829 | Flag of the Metropolitan Police | The Badge of the Metropolitan Police on a blue background, with white squares at the edge |
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)