Dost thou not know that love respects no blood, Cares not for difference of birth or state?

-Dekker,Thomas
  The Shoemaker's Holiday, act 5, sc.5.

For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Canonization', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

In friendship false, implacable in hate: Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.173^4.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Adam Bede, ch.42.

Der Staat wird nicht 'abgeschafft', er stirbt ab. The state is not 'abolished'; it withers away.

-Engels, Friedrich
  Anti-Du«  hring, pt.3, ch.2.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

-Engels, Friedrich
  The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'For  John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20  Jan. Snow- blindness prevented the agedpoet from reading beyond the first three lines on the occasion.

It does mean the end of Britain as an independent European state. It means the end of a thousand years of history.

-Gaitskell, Hugh
  On Britain joining the European Community. Labour Party conference speech, Oct.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The New Industrial State.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

-Galsworthy,John
  On D H Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, in a letter to Edward Garnett,13  Apr.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.6.

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

-Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton
  Art-nonsense and Other Essays,'Slavery and Freedom'.

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho'fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.

-Gray,Thomas
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.1^4.

The more the state'plans'the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

-Hayek, Friedrich August von
  The Road to Serfdom.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

-King, Martin LutherJr
  Strength to Love.

   The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

-Klee, Paul
  Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published1957).

Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

-Labouche'  re, Henry Du Pre¤
  In the Fortnightly Review, Feb.

If†Americans do not succeed in engineering an economic revival, we can look forward to being remembered as, of all the nations that have prospered and declined, the one that has done so in the highest state of self-awareness.

-Lardner,James
  'The Declining Middle', in the NewYorker, 3 May.

It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old courthouse pacing up and down.

-Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel
  The Congo and Other Poems,'Abraham Lincoln Walks  At Midnight'.