State Holiday

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or holiday:

“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)