Famous quotes containing the words lean, construction and/or ideals:
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)