State Quotes
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Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.
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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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By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.
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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
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If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.
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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
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The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
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The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.
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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
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A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
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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.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man
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Which facts are relevant and which are not relevant to a science will be relative to the current state of development of that science.
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A good deal is a state of mind.
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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.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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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.
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I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
