State Governments

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or governments:

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)