Famous quotes containing the words state and/or legislator:
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)