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11619 States quotes by 5153 unique authors

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the… — Milton Friedman
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. — David Ricardo
If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case… — Sonia Sotomayor
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel
You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what… — Stephen Breyer
I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I am troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage.… — George W. Bush
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings… — John Stuart Mill
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. — Noam Chomsky
It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being… — Noam Chomsky
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… — Noam Chomsky
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or… — Noam Chomsky
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American… — David Rockefeller
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...… — Frederic Bastiat
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue… — Gary Becker
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this… — Adolf Hitler
I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis… — John Maynard Keynes

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