State Secrets

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or secrets:

    The blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and the tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches, and one went in a litter.
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    But the conquered grew meek and still.
    They slowly and silently aged.
    They kept their secrets and died....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)