Famous quotes containing the words state and/or capital:
“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“A good many have been thrown out on their broad capital bases.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)