State Quotes

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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can… — Al Oerter
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .… — Louis D. Brandeis
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through… — Benjamin Rush
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. — David Ricardo
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel
You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what… — Stephen Breyer
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings… — John Stuart Mill
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. — Noam Chomsky
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or… — Noam Chomsky
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...… — Frederic Bastiat
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue… — Gary Becker
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this… — Adolf Hitler
I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis… — John Maynard Keynes
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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