States, like individuals, who observe their engagements…

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free…

— Alexander Hamilton

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Just because someone looks good doesnt mean that they should be respected and trusted.

— Vikrant Parsai

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their…

— Herb Kelleher

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

— Jean Vanier

Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I…

— Bill Richardson

The Union government can do a lot more for poor states like Orissa.

— Naveen Patnaik

Meanwhile, there are some traditional battleground states - like Ohio and Iowa - that are becoming older, whiter and less educated. That's turning them…

— Mara Liasson

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

— Shane Claiborne

I just like the United States, and I like being an American.

— Bobby Knight

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor