State Challenge

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or challenge:

    A state ... arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
    Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)