Famous quotes containing the words state and/or law:
“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)