Famous quotes containing the words state, defence and/or order:
“The human race is yet in its infancyno, not infancy; infancy is innocent and sweetit is in its ugly boyhood, half way between the child and the manin a state of semi-barbarism.”
—Anonymous, U.S. magazine contributor. Herald of Progress (no dates available)
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)
“If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)