Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discern only law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)