States Quotes

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.