States Refer

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or refer:

    “In the case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of ... powers not granted by the compact, the States ... are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “To refer is not to assert, though you refer in order to go on to assert.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)