State Spartans Men

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or men:

    “Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.”
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)

    “So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly
    Were dead and damned, there sounded ‘War is done!’
    One morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,
    ‘Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,
    And in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?’”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)