State Quotes

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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state — Dean Rusk
The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205â€”a list of names that were made known to… — Joseph McCarthy
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for… — Edward Abbey
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,… — Edward Abbey
King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on… — Edward Abbey
I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone? — Edward Abbey
Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy. — Edward Abbey
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space… — Edward Abbey
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of… — Thomas Jefferson
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men… — Alexis de Tocqueville
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal — Friedrich August von Hayek
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,… — Frederic Bastiat
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each… — Henry Adams
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson,… — Mercy Otis Warren

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