States Quotes - Page 29

Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.