Famous quotes containing the words close, protection and/or service:
“Not to die on the straw at home,
Those hands to close these eyes,
That is all I ask, my dear,
From the old man in the skies.
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
—James Madison (17511836)
“The gods service is tolerable, mans intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
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