States Quotes - Page 9

I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.

In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received a rebate from the IRS of $260 million. That same year J.P. Morgan had $17.2 billion in profits in the U.S. They also paid no federal income tax. Do you think it's time for tax reform?

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.