City State

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or state:

“It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“A functioning police state needs no police.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)