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State Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
- To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.
- I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose…
- If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own…
- In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost…
- Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army,…
- A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares…
- To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid…
- The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to…
- The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only…
- I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,…
- Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and…
- In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men…
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