State Quotes - page 2

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. (Brian Aldiss)
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. View quote
James Baldwin
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. View quote
Václav Havel
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. View quote
Dan Quayle
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. View quote
Ariel Sharon
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. View quote
Arthur Miller
Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. (Voltaire)
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. View quote
James K. Polk
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. View quote
Ayn Rand
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. View quote
O. Henry
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. (Norman Mailer)
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
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