Famous quotes containing the words state, chartered and/or federal:
“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)