Famous quotes containing the words state and/or dog:
“Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discern only law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Thou call’st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)