300 Quotes on State

• It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

  Author: Konrad Zuse

• When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

  Author: Xun Zi

• I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

  Author: Oleksandr Zhuravliov

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

  Author: Andrew Young

• I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

  Author: John Yoo

• The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

  Author: Fay Wray

• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  Author: Fay Wray

• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  Author: William Wordsworth

• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

  Author: John Wooden

• My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

  Author: Ron Wood

• I am appalled at the state of discord in the field of climate science. There is no observational evidence that the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused any temperature perturbations in the atmosphere.

  Author: George Wolff

• Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

  Author: John Witherspoon

• I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

  Author: Henry Wise

• I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

  Author: Henry Wise

• A star for every State, and a State for every star.

  Author: Robert Winthrop

• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  Author: E. Wilson

• I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

  Author: William Wills

• In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

  Author: Roger Williams

• I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

  Author: Anthony Williams

• I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

  Author: Anson Williams

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Author: Mary Whitehouse

• I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

  Author: William Whipple

• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  Author: William Wharton

• It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

  Author: William Wharton

• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

  Author: Donald Westlake

• I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  Author: H. Wells

• In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Faith is a state of openness or trust.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

  Author: Mike Watt

• We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

  Author: James Watkins

• It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

  Author: Earl Warren

• It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government.

  Author: Mark Warner

• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  Author: David Wain

• Simplicity is a state of mind.

  Author: Charles Wagner

• If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  Author: Frederick Vinson

• We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

  Author: Henry Villard

• When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

  Author: Queen Victoria

• There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

  Author: William Vickrey

• Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

  Author: Edward Tylor

• The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.

  Author: Joshua Tucker

• Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

  Author: Lyman Trumbull

• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

  Author: Robert Trout

• 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.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• 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.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

  Author: Mike Todd

• Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

  Author: James Thomson

• Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

  Author: John Thompson

• While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

  Author: John Thompson

• An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

  Author: James Thompson

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  Author: E. Thompson

• Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

  Author: Dylan Thomas

• Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

  Author: Paul Theroux

• I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it.

  Author: Michael Taylor

• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  Author: A. Taylor

• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

  Author: Allen Tate

• Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

  Author: Tacitus

• In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

  Author: Tacitus

• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

  Author: Tacitus

• But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  Author: John Sununu

• The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

  Author: William Sumner

• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  Author: William Sumner

• When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

  Author: William Styron

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

  Author: Gregor Strasser

• Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

  Author: John Strachan

• Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

  Author: Hannah Storm

• But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

  Author: Max Stirner

• I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

  Author: Sting

• My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

  Author: George Stigler

• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Author: Stanley Stevens

• If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along."

  Author: John Spong

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Author: Anna Spencer

• The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

  Author: Robert Southey

• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  Author: George Soros

• I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

  Author: Sophocles

• It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

  Author: Sophocles

• A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

  Author: Sophocles

• I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

  Author: James Somerville

• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

  Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

  Author: William Smith

• I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

  Author: Patti Smith

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  Author: L. Smith

• The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

  Author: Adam Smith

• But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

  Author: George Smathers

• Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

  Author: George Smathers

• The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

  Author: George Smathers

• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  Author: Mark Skousen

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

  Author: Peter Singer

• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

  Author: Paul Simon

• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Author: Norodom Sihanouk

• Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

  Author: George Shultz

• Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

  Author: Clare Short

• Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

  Author: John Shirley

• 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. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  Author: James Shirley

• But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• Penn State is a leader in food science.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

  Author: Charles Sherrington

• If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

  Author: Kevin Shelley

• Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

  Author: Arthur Sheekman

• Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  Author: Lal Shastri

• 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.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

  Author: Butler Shaffer

• For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

  Author: John Shadegg

• These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

  Author: Ahmet Sezner

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  Author: William Seward

• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  Author: William Seward

• The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

  Author: William Seward

• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.

  Author: Saint Sequoyah

• In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  Author: Nassau Senior

• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  Author: Nassau Senior

• After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

  Author: David Sedaris

• Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  Author: William Scranton

• America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Author: Bruce Schneier

• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

• Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  Author: Otto Schily

• At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

  Author: John Saul

• Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

  Author: Jose Santos

• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  Author: George Santayana

• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Author: Bernie Sanders

• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

  Author: Sallust

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  Author: Harrison Salisbury

• That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.

  Author: Afif Safieh

• Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

  Author: Vita Sackville-West

• White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

  Author: Joseph Rutherford

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

  Author: David Rusk

• The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

  Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Author: Murray Rothbard

• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

  Author: Murray Rothbard

• I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Author: Elihu Root

• We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

  Author: Roy Romer

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