Test State

Famous quotes containing the words test and/or state:

“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)