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State Quotes by Samuel Adams
- We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free,…
- All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or…
- If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects…
- Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to…
- The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years…
- In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their…
- Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be…
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