States Quotes - page 4

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. (William Cobbett)
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. View quote
Sam Houston
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. View quote
George Washington
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. View quote
George Washington
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. View quote
George H. W. Bush
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. View quote
Karen Armstrong
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. View quote
Ann Coulter
I was born in Europe and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and... manipulates the credit of the United States. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America. View quote
Jim Carrey
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. View quote
Stephen Douglas
This work may be best described as an attempt to construct a of the United States. View quote
Wassily Leontief
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death! (Jack Kevorkian)
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is. View quote
Dick Cheney
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. View quote
George Mason