Famous quotes containing the words basis and/or states:
“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)