States Quotes - Page 52

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.