Famous quotes containing the words speaking and/or population:
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“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 (17901857)