States Quotes

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

To change with change is the changeless state

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states. I believe in Airbus and Ariane, in a Europe based on cooperation. But I don't want this European Soviet Union.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.