States Compatible

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or compatible:

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)