Famous quotes containing the words state, planning and/or committee:
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)