States Quotes

11619 States quotes by 5153 unique authors

I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday… — Stuart Chase
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon
25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's… — Andrew Ford
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to… — James Madison
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests… — Alexander Hamilton
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That… — Fay Wray
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of… — Thomas Jefferson
Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax. — Drake
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity… — Charles Horton Cooley
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities… — Mike Royko
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with… — Malcolm Wallop
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the… — Ann Coulter
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves. — Dianne Feinstein
I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual… — Jan Schakowsky
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. — Janet Reno
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him… — George Orwell

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