Famous quotes containing the words west, german and/or government:
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“I don’t want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one ‘til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German ‘til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)
“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)