State Governments

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or governments:

    Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don’t mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
    Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)