Nation States

Famous quotes containing the words nation and/or states:

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)