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States Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
- An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains…
- In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
- A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of…
- The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur