Sovereign States

Famous quotes containing the words sovereign and/or states:

“Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“Sean Thornton: I don’t get this. Why do we have to have you along. Back in the states I’d drive up, honk the horn, a gal’d come runnin’ out.
Mary Kate Danaher: Come a runnin’. I’m no woman to be honked at and come a runnin’.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)