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I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love. -- John Steinbeck

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently. -- Gustav Landauer

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. -- Eric Gill

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances. -- John F. Kerry

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

I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it. -- John Steinbeck

Wisconsin isn't a state, it's a state of mind; and gentle good humor is the coin of the realm. -- Scott Jacobs

The state was made for man, not man for state. -- Albert Einstein

To desire a state is to have it. -- Neville Goddard

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. -- Benito Mussolini

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office. -- Pittacus Of Mytilene

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult. -- Pat Conroy

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know. -- Joe Lo Truglio

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The highest state is laughter. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. -- V.s. Pritchett

You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography. -- Melora Hardin

Better lose me than lose a state. -- Susan B. Anthony

state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even. -- Robert D. Kaplan

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win. -- Martin O'malley

State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

This is trash state U.S.A. -- Tim Dorsey

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name. -- Beck

No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states. -- Anthony Eden

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. -- Rick Perry

Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians. Another -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

both the American and Texas State -- John C. Dalglish

Each state enjoys sovereign power. -- Gouverneur Morris

I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen. -- Lindsey Graham

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states. -- Herb Asher

was the state he was aiming for. -- J.c. Reed

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund. -- Craig T. Nelson

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion. -- Mikhail Bakunin

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state? -- Leila Aboulela

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. -- Carroll Quigley

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You know, the state of Connecticut is ... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut. -- Linda Mcmahon

The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves -- Albert Einstein

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. -- Kenneth Waltz

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. -- Peter Ueberroth

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. -- Chris Christie

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear. -- Emma Goldman

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power. -- Thomas Jefferson

The state is for the recognition, endorsement, and protection of rights, which means creating the conditions under which rights can be recognized, endorsed, and protected. The state endures to create a sense of durability. A -- Timothy Snyder

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way. -- Brian Sandoval

When states are absent, rights - by any definition - are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort. -- Timothy Snyder

THE STATE consists of a number of people who, having somehow got hold of it, make use of the machinery of coercion to the end that they might pursue their version of happiness without respect to the discipline of the market place. -- Anonymous

That's Kansas. Or Missouri. One of those corn states. -- Julia London

What constitutes a state? ... Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ... And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. -- William Scott, 1St Baron Stowell

States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three. -- Robert Frost

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana. -- Dannel Malloy

I would rather be without a state than without a voice. -- Edward Snowden

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right. -- Martin O'malley

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. -- Henry George

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms. -- Pierre Trudeau

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. -- Murray Rothbard

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. -- Oscar Wilde

This state lasted for six months, for six months I was truly happy, truly at home in this world and in myself before slowly it began to lose its luster, and once more the world moved out of my reach. -- Karl Ove Knausgard

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws. -- Philip Berrigan

A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens. -- Voltaire

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. -- David Wain

If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else. -- Bernard Of Clairvaux

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation? -- William E. Gladstone

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals. -- Bill Richardson

A star for every State, and a State for every star. -- Robert Charles Winthrop

Florida for Transition -- Jim Curran

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it. -- Albert Einstein

Freedom from desire is the best of states. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed. -- H.g.wells

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state. -- Joseph Sobran

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting. -- Jim Davis

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree. -- Derek Theler

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor. -- Frank Chodorov

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. -- Robert Pinsky

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way. -- John Oliver

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in. -- Annie Laurie Gaylor

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home. -- Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Mikhail Bakunin

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. -- Mikhail Bakunin

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. -- Ted Cruz

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be. -- Roger Scruton

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own. -- Michael Ignatieff

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. -- James Madison

Ive been to 50 of these 60 US states -- Barack Obama

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. -- Noam Chomsky

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less. -- Ruth Ann Minner

Education is largely run at the state level. -- Mitt Romney

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. -- Michael Ondaatje

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. -- Karl Marx

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole ... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government. -- Thomas Jefferson

Peace is our original state -- Lao-Tzu

The state is not abolished, it withers away. -- Friedrich Engels

Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, -- Washington Irving