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State Quotes by Thomas Paine
- I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay…
- The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved…
- The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly...
- It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious…
- The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land…
- 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.…
- We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed…
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have…
- 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…
- There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him,…
- Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we…
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…
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