State Quotes

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A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most… — Thomas Jefferson
We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in… — Marc Morial
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems… — DeForest Soaries
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to… — Leo Tolstoy
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that… — Leo Tolstoy
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. — Bryant H. McGill
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one… — Richard Rorty
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have… — Milton Friedman
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… — John Stuart Mill
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation. — Abraham Lincoln
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working… — Eric Gill
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Reginald John Campbell

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