Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or state:
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
“No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)