“It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.”— Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915, Part II, Ch. 3Share
“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”— Joseph ConradShare
“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”— Joseph ConradShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“Your ultimate allegiance is not to the government, not to the state, not to nation, not to any man-made institution.”— Martin Luther King Jr.Share
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”— Nelson MandelaShare
“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.”— Charles DickensShare
