Famous quotes containing the words states, government and/or printing:
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
—John Locke (16321704)
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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