Famous quotes containing the words german and/or state:
“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)