Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or state:
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)