States Public Health

Famous quotes containing the words states, public and/or health:

    That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And when we get too far apart in wealth,
    ‘Twas his idea that for the public health,
    So that the poor won’t have to steal by stealth,
    We now and then should take an equalizer.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
    —Constitution of the World Health Organization.