State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.
— Moshe Katsav
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land…
— Shimon Peres
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing…
— Edmund Burke
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
— Seneca the Younger
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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the…
— Hjalmar Branting
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I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state…
— Jesse Helms
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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.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make…
— Jodi Rell
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Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in…
— Joe Manchin
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order.…
— Kamisese Mara
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
— Matthew Simpson
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much…
— Thomas Malthus
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to…
— Adam Rickitt
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We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We…
— Jodi Rell
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness…
— Polly Toynbee
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under…
— William H. Seward
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the…
— Lionel Trilling
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From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in…
— Seth Low
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I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
— Cole Younger
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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but…
— Jeff Sessions
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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or…
— Zach Wamp
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A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget…
— Andrzej Wajda
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