Iron/precautions

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or precautions:

“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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 (1790–1857)