Defending State

Famous quotes containing the words defending and/or state:

“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)