State Chartered Federal

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

    The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)

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

    There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.
    Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)