Foreign State

Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or state:

“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)