State Quotes

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If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them… — Frederic Bastiat
It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The… — Thomas Jefferson
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a… — Benjamin Franklin
I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns.… — Thomas Paine
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy — Karl Marx
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… — John F. Kennedy
From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital — Mahmoud Abbas
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. — Henry George
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes? — Antonin Scalia
New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state. — Heather Wilson
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I… — Dav Pilkey
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover… — Ingmar Bergman
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a… — Roland Barthes
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent… — Mark Strand
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. — Michael Ondaatje
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that… — Lakhdar Brahimi
I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will… — Veerappa Moily
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez… — Moshe Dayan
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and… — Robert Muller
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. — Robert Muller

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