State Quotes

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There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from… — Henry David Thoreau
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times… — James Madison
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care… — Thomas Jefferson
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. — Seth Godin
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of… — D. H. Lawrence
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem… — Sarah Palin
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location. — Wayne Dyer
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same… — Sarah Dessen
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,… — George Carlin
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son… — Shane Claiborne
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray… — George Carlin
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced… — Scott Westerfeld
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain… — Eckhart Tolle
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction… — Theodore Kaczynski
I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. — Sarah Palin
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden… — John Steinbeck
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a… — Ann Brashares

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