Famous quotes containing the words state and/or capital:
“The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)