Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or state:
“Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)