States Lose

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or lose:

“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it;Mbut we oftener treble the force.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)