Warrant/government

Famous quotes containing the words warrant and/or government:

    “I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
    Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
    When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
    On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
    In the fine old English Tory times;”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1890)

    “The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)