States Quotes

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

The era of a Palestinian state is over.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Traits don't change, states of mind do.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.