Athens/government

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or government:

    “Before the time I did Lysander see,
    Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
    O then, what graces in my love do dwell,
    That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A government of laws, and not of men.”
    —John Adams (1735–1826)