State Quotes

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. — Abraham Lincoln
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it… — Thomas Sowell
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. — Murray Rothbard
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. — Seneca the Younger
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. — Seneca the Younger
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never… — T. Harv Eker
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due… — John Herschel
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national… — Steven Chu
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring… — Jacob Bronowski
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...… — Joseph LeConte

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