London/government

Famous quotes containing the words london and/or government:

“I’m an orphan. I’ve come to London to make my fortune.”
—Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)