States Quotes - Page 51

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

Only the home can found a state.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.