Famous quotes containing the words official, secrets and/or acts:
“The honor my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“My eyes are blinking, Dathi said,
With the secrets of God half blind,
But I can see where the wind goes
And follow the way of the wind;
And blessedness goes where the wind goes....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousnessthere can be no doubt of thatmorality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europethe most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)