Labour Government

Famous quotes containing the words labour and/or government:

“all her labour was but as a block
Left in the quarry;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)