States Quotes

11619 States quotes by 5153 unique authors

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and… — Albert Camus
We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.… — John McCain
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is… — Frederick Salomon Perls
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. — Susanna Kaysen
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out. — Harry Browne
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"… — Emma Goldman
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. — Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual… — Mary McCarthy
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the… — Immanuel Kant
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant.… — Susan Jeffers
Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is… — Stephen Colbert
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars — Leo Tolstoy
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare

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