States Quotes - Page 25

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.