State Owned

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or owned:

“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)