Able Quote by Richard Mitchell

If a relationship does not promote a state's legitimate interests, there is no reason a state should sanction it.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Whom we love, how we love... how can the State decide that for us?

— Kubra Sait

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into.…

— Dick Cheney

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local…

— Pete Sessions

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be…

— William Rehnquist

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.

— Rick Santorum

We should value what we have and not take it for granted.

— Manisha Koirala

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

— Evan Wolfson

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

— Asma Jahangir