States Quotes · Page 96

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

— Samuel Johnson

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

— David Barton

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

— H. L. Mencken

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

— H. L. Mencken

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

— Tony Judt

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

— Barack Obama

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

— Ernest Hemingway

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

— George Galloway

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

— Alcee Hastings

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

— Bill Vaughan

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

— Emile Capouya

I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

— Grace Lee Boggs

I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state.

— Elle Macpherson

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

— George Washington

I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California…

— Bernie Sanders

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a…

— Anonymous

It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being…

— Ivica Dacic

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves…

— Bill Vaughan

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they…

— Lauren Oliver

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass…

— Jim Gerlach

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one…

— Noah Feldman

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion…

— Harry Hay

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…

— Robert Higgs

The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies…

— Wendell Berry

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could…

— Bernard Bailyn

The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

When we talk about the environment, about creation, my thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis,…

— Pope Francis

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one…

— Alexander Hamilton

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a…

— Chogyam Trungpa

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens…

— William Jennings Bryan

The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths.

— Ban Ki-moon

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

— Michael Farris

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

— Steve Rauschenberger

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

— Mark Twain

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

— Donald Rumsfeld

If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

— Donald Trump

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

— Oriana Fallaci

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

— Joe Biden