Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:
“We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and cant take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum majors uniform on.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.”
—Marquis De Custine (17901857)
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
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