States Quotes

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.

Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.