Famous quotes containing the words state and/or courts:
“The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.