States Quotes

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

[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.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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

It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Donald Trump and I both accept that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.