One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States.… — Eleanor Mondale Copy Share Image
The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities. — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth. — Kaskade Copy Share Image
The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured… — Michael Oren Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The government of Mexico is terrific. I don't blame them for what's happened. I don't blame them for taking advantage of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops… — Sarah Moon Copy Share Image
The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not… — Michel Martelly Copy Share Image