State Quotes
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
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War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
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Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
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The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state.
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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
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Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
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It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.
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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.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
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The damage identified in the requested counties is not beyond the combined capabilities of the state and affected local governments
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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
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New Hampshire has always been a good state.
