Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“Do not doubt a woman’s power to aid; no toil
Can daunt a pure affection.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)

“There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)