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State Quotes by Joseph Story
- It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and…
- Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
- So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
- The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the…
- In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist…
- The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.…
- The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
- In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they…
- Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either…
- At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if…
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