States Quotes - Page 14

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being unpatriotic. That's an unacceptable series of equations.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.