State Outline

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or outline:

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

“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)