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11619 States quotes by 5153 unique authors

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in… — Marc Morial
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems… — DeForest Soaries
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states… — DeForest Soaries
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and… — Virgil Goode
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are… — David Suzuki
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to… — Leo Tolstoy
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that… — Leo Tolstoy
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. — Bryant H. McGill
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one… — Richard Rorty
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have… — Milton Friedman
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… — Milton Friedman
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… — John Stuart Mill
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation. — Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run… — Benjamin Cardozo
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American… — Benedict Groeschel
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working… — Eric Gill
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer

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