--- title: "9 Thirteen States Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Thirteen States quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Thirteen States sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/oliver-ellsworth-29122_body_the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-soverei_396723.jpg" --- > [The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-ellsworth/the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-sovereign-bodies/) [Oliver Ellsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-ellsworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/oliver-ellsworth-29122_body_the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-soverei_396723.jpg) > [You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-foxworthy/you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite-t-shirt-is-offensive-in/) [Jeff Foxworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-foxworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/jeff-foxworthy-939_ifs_you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite_1663708.jpg) > [Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/barry-goldwater-has-definitely-decided-to-be-a-candidate-in-64-he/) [George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9da/george-carlin-155_american-politics_barry-goldwater-has-definitely-decided-t_1869163.jpg) > [“By 1955 thirteen states had passed laws regulating the publication, distribution, and sale of comic books. Leading intellectuals, including C. Wright Mills,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-patterson/by-1955-thirteen-states-had-passed-laws-regulating-the-publication/) [James T. Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-t-patterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/353/james-t-patterson-3417_books_by-1955-thirteen-states-had-passed-laws_137351.jpg) > [ Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal \[of prohibition\] until Halley's comet returns.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-darrow/thirteen-states-with-a-population-less-than-that-of-new-york-state/) [Clarence Darrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarence-darrow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28f/clarence-darrow-1714_comets_thirteen-states-with-a-population-less-t_426370.png) > [Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-hamilton/let-americans-disdain-to-be-the-instruments-of-european-greatness-let/) [Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-hamilton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/475/alexander-hamilton-619_able_let-americans-disdain-to-be-the-instrume_1510598.jpg) > [The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-late-rebellion-in-massachusetts-has-given-more-alarm-than-i-think/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/053/thomas-jefferson-43_alarms_the-late-rebellion-in-massachusetts-has_1296861.jpg) > [“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-constitution-was-a-compromise-between-slaveholding-interests-of/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/226/howard-zinn-576_business_the-constitution-was-a-compromise-betwee_459288.jpg) > [“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/a-year-earlier-representatives-of-thirteen-states-had-assembled-in/) [Richard M. Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-ketchum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/richard-m-ketchum-37369_civil-war_a-year-earlier-representatives-of-thirte_263801.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thirteen-states/#itemlist", "name": "Thirteen States Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oliver Ellsworth" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-ellsworth/the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-sovereign-bodies/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/oliver-ellsworth-29122_body_the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-soverei_396723.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/oliver-ellsworth-29122_body_the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-soverei_396723.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/oliver-ellsworth-29122_body_the-thirteen-states-are-thirteen-soverei_396723.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.” — Oliver Ellsworth", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jeff Foxworthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-foxworthy/you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite-t-shirt-is-offensive-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/jeff-foxworthy-939_ifs_you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite_1663708.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/jeff-foxworthy-939_ifs_you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite_1663708.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/jeff-foxworthy-939_ifs_you-might-be-a-redneck-if-your-favorite_1663708.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.” — Jeff Foxworthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. 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The South agreed to this, in return for allowing the trade in slaves to continue for twenty years before being outlawed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Howard Zinn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-constitution-was-a-compromise-between-slaveholding-interests-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/226/howard-zinn-576_business_the-constitution-was-a-compromise-betwee_459288.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/226/howard-zinn-576_business_the-constitution-was-a-compromise-betwee_459288.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/226/howard-zinn-576_business_the-constitution-was-a-compromise-betwee_459288.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the…” — Howard Zinn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but what had come of their declaration was a long way from being a union, let alone a perfect one, and Schuyler, along with all his other problems, was caught up in one of the regional rivalries that would surface as long as the republic endured. Describing the colonies, Benjamin Franklin once noted that each had “peculiar expressions, familiar to its own people, but strange and unintelligible to others.” An early traveler observed, “Fire and Water are not more heterogeneous than the different colonies,” and it was said before the Revolution that the disjointed collection of settlements would come to no good, that they would soon engage in civil war. So”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard M. 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