Famous quotes containing the words states, government and/or printing:
“On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husbands dinners.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)