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State Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do…
- The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
- The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
- And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than…
- This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of…
- Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its…
- The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of…
- Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes…
- I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year.…
- For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the…
- A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
- Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no…
- I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he…
- Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians…
- To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and…
- And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
- I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila