Government Printing Office

Famous quotes containing the words government, printing and/or office:

    “Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)