State Quotes
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon
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Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If state rights and laissez faire meant an end to force bills, removal of Federal troops from Southern state capitals, and abandonment of intervention in local politics and race discriminations, the South was for them strong. On the other hand the South had no patience with state rights and laissez faire if they implied abandonment of Federal subsidies, loans of credit, and internal improvements. Of these the South believed she had not had anything like her just share and she meant to have a lot more.
C. Vann Woodward
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There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.
Paul Provenza
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen
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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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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
Henrik Ibsen
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The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John Milton
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Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.
Jimmy Carter
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That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.
George W Truett
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Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
Carrie Jones
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Blaise Pascal
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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
Joseph Sobran
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
Harvey Fierstein