States Quotes - Page 40

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something, it’s being happy with who you are.

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.

For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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