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Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to -- Lenore Look
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
Whatever insults my State insults me. -- Preston Brooks
both the American and Texas State -- John C. Dalglish
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. -- James Madison
The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. -- Will Durant
Myth The United States of America is made up of fifty states. Truth Technically, no. There are only forty-six states in the United States - Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths. -- Leland Gregory
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
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
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
Any state with an initiative process is on our radar. -- Jennifer A. Hillman
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. -- Emma Goldman
Every state is different,' Lumbly was saying. 'Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you'll see the breadth of the country before you reach your final stop. -- Colson Whitehead
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
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
state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even. -- Robert D. Kaplan
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
States. According to Edwin Black, award-winning author of War -- Ellen Marie Wiseman
The state of our state needs serious attention. -- Mitch Daniels
Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we're in. -- Anthony Robbins
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 state is the nursing mother of human culture. -- Joseph Alexander Leighton
I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment. -- Gary Carr
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
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. -- Noam Chomsky
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures. -- Adolf Hitler
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories. -- Roger B. Taney
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. -- Mikhail Bakunin
"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
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. -- Christian Lous Lange
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. -- Stephen Breyer
Every State is known by the rights it maintains. -- Harold Laski
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
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. -- Frederic Bastiat
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
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
State action is like love: If you have doubts that you are in it, you probably are not. -- Peter F. Lake
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored -- John Anderson
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes. -- Frank Chodorov
History is the memory of States. -- Henry Kissinger
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
This state of independence shall be! -- Jon Anderson
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. -- Benito Mussolini
The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do. -- Tony Robbins
The state was made for man, not man for state. -- Albert Einstein
We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
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
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. -- Thomas Jefferson
In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week. -- Alexis De Tocqueville
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
Freedom from desire is the best of states. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period. -- Anna Eshoo
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. -- Oscar Wilde
Education is largely run at the state level. -- Mitt Romney
California: The west coast of Iowa. -- Joan Didion
To desire a state is to have it. -- Neville Goddard
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
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
I would rather be without a state than without a voice. -- Edward Snowden
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
For many years, I supported the concept of separate states. -- F. W. De Klerk
...thus our State, which is also yours, will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. -- Plato
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
This is trash state U.S.A. -- Tim Dorsey
Florida for Transition -- Jim Curran
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. -- Joseph Story
The highest state is laughter. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them! -- Richard M. Nixon
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult. -- Pat Conroy
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The US States are our laboratories of democracy. -- Louis D. Brandeis
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
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass. -- Robert Higgs
California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund. -- Craig T. Nelson
I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist. -- John Mccain
The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. -- Rene Descartes
Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism! -- Jonah Goldberg
The States in which the citizens have enjoyed their rights longest are those in which they make the best use of them. -- Alexis De Tocqueville
I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut. -- Jim Coleman
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power. -- John Mearsheimer
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State". -- Antonin Scalia
A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness. -- David Foster Wallace
But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all. -- Leo Tolstoy
A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole, -- Rufus King
The laws of a state change with the changing times. -- Aeschylus
[W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design. -- Catharine A. Mackinnon
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
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. -- Alexander Hamilton
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right. -- Martin O'malley
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. -- Plato
was the state he was aiming for. -- J.c. Reed
...illegal states of mind... -- Douglas Adams
California, still a magical vanity fair. -- Eileen Granfors
