State Quotes
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Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.
Jimmy Carter
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It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.
John Maynard Keynes
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Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.
Norbert Elias
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik Ibsen
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
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We are going to fight this vigorously in defense of a state preemption law that has served Washington citizens well for more than three decades.
Alan Gottlieb
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Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
Emma Hewitt
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In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
Anthony de Jasay
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Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.
Aristotle
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
Akbar Ganji
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron
