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)

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)