Athens/government

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or government:

    “Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
    Falling towers
    Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
    Vienna London”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)