Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)