Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The man of business ... goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)