Famous quotes containing the words state and/or government:
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)