A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment… — George Allen Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across… — Tim Loughton Copy Share Image
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist?… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs.… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots -… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I have a map of the united states .... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” — socrates Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city… — Luisa Tetrazzini Copy Share Image
Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of… — Martina Hingis Copy Share Image
I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world. — Emma Hewitt Copy Share Image
You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United… — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state. — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
