States Quotes - Page 20

I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

I am a man who loves my country, the United States.

Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power to protect the guilty than to persecute the innocent. And its motive is not crazy totalitarian utopianism, it's motive is repressive kleptocracy. To steal and to use the powers of the state to protect theft.

At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

The United States is a fake country.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.