States Senate Armed

Famous quotes containing the words states, senate and/or armed:

    “How many ages hence
    Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
    In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What times! What manners! The Senate knows these things, the consul sees them, and yet this man lives.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “What man dare, I dare.
    Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
    The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
    Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
    Shall never tremble. Or be alive again
    And dare me to the desert with thy sword.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)