State Chartered Banks

Famous quotes containing the words state, chartered and/or banks:

    “The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “When he speaks,
    The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon,
    How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
    How can ye chant, ye little birds,
    And I sae weary fu’ o’ care?
    Thou’lt break my heart, thou warbling bird,
    That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn:
    Thou minds me o’ departed joys,
    Departed never to return.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)