Princely States

Famous quotes containing the words princely and/or states:

    O thou goddess,
    Thou divine Nature, thou thyself thou blazon’st
    In these two princely boys!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)