Famous quotes containing the words state, chartered and/or federal:
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)