Famous quotes containing the words state, ports and/or authority:
“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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