Famous quotes containing the words states, government and/or printing:
“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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