Famous quotes containing the words state, defence and/or order:
“The principal saloon was the Howlin Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Sow seedbut let no tyrant reap;
Find wealthlet no imposter heap;
Weave robeslet not the idle wear;
Forge armsin your defence to bear.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speakingand since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
—Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)