States Quotes - Page 62

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

A good deal is a state of mind.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.