State Quotes

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A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is… — Unknown Author
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to… — H. L. Mencken
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead… — Hans F. Sennholz
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an… — Vladimir Lenin
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's… — Max Lucado
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. — Abraham Maslow
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state… — Immanuel Kant
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that… — Christopher Alexander
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. — Plutarch
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must… — Erik Erikson
I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on… — Mary Steenburgen

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