State Quotes

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Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of what service would… — Patrick Henry
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by… — Michel de Montaigne
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or… — Thomas Jefferson
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made… — Michael Shannon
I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion… — William J. Clinton
There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised… — Elwyn Brooks White
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove… — Aneurin Bevan
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state… — Winston Churchill
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to… — H. L. Mencken
If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to. — Puff Daddy
A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity.… — Anthony Lawlor
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our… — Debbie Stabenow
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills… — Fisher Ames

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