Famous quotes containing the words state and/or challenge:
“They will take a state and human nature for their tablet, and begin by making a clean surface.”
—Plato (c. 427347 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 (18721933)