Weak States

Famous quotes containing the words weak and/or states:

“Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)