Government Business

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or business:

“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)