Body Quote by Dorothy Day

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or…

— Edmund Burke

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

— Richard N. Haass

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

— Andrzej Duda

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the…

— William H. Seward

Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators…

— Rob Woodall

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

— Sebastian Kurz

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state,…

— Hassan Nasrallah

I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.

— Ricardo Rossello