States Quotes

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

My fellow Republicans, when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be huge.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.