Famous quotes containing the words period and/or purge:
“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“If I do grow great, I’ll grow less, for I’ll purge and leave
sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)