Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or government:
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The government does not concern me much, and I shall bestow the fewest possible thoughts on it. It is not many moments that I live under a government, even in this world. If a man is thought- free, fancy-free, imagination-free ... unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)