Idle State

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or state:

“Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:15.

“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)