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Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to By Lenore Look Massachusetts Hard Spell

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures. By Adolf Hitler End State Creatures Lies Preservation

I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love. By John Steinbeck Montana Respect Recognition Love Admiration

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently. By Gustav Landauer Relating Relationship Social People State

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. By Eric Gill State Time Slavery Man Spare

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. By Geoff Mulgan Years States Duties Made Surprisingly

Briefly, the State is that organizationin society which attempts to maintain amonopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the onlyorganization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment forservices rendered but by coercion. By Murray N. Rothbard Briefly State Society Area Coercion

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances. By John F. Kerry State Mexico Bush Denial George

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now. By Anson Williams Alaska Missed Question Hear Make

I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it. By John Steinbeck Montana Love Respect Recognition Admiration

Wisconsin isn't a state, it's a state of mind; and gentle good humor is the coin of the realm. By Scott Jacobs State Wisconsin Mind Realm Gentle

The state was made for man, not man for state. By Albert Einstein State Man Made

To desire a state is to have it. By Neville Goddard Desire State

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. By Benito Mussolini State Virtue Unity Educates Citizens

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office. By Pittacus Of Mytilene Allowed Office Men State Bad

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult. By Pat Conroy Carolina South State Cult

State are not made, nor patched; they grow;Grow slow through centuries of pain,And grow correctly in the main;But only grow by certain laws,Of certain bits in certain jaws. By John Masefield Grow State Made Patched Main

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know. By Joe Lo Truglio State People Friends Close Incredibly

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life." By Friedrich Nietzsche State Wicked Good Life Call

The highest state is laughter. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Laughter Highest State

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. By V.s. Pritchett State Subcommittees Cawing Rookery Committees

You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography. By Melora Hardin Pictionary State Play Draws Geography

Better lose me than lose a state. By Susan B. Anthony State Lose

state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even. By Robert D. Kaplan State Position Map Thing Defines

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel State High Nature Life Stands

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win. By Martin O'malley Grandparents Live World Inherited Parents

State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life. By Friedrich Nietzsche State Wicked Good Poison Life

This is trash state U.S.A. By Tim Dorsey State Trash

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth. By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Earth State Divine Idea Exists

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name. By Beck National Socialism State Mussolini Hitler

No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states. By Anthony Eden Work Duty Democratic World Recognize

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. By Rick Perry American Day Government States People

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation. By Alexander Hamilton State National Governments Advantages Encroachments

A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs. By Friedrich Nietzsche State Monsters Called Coldest Cold

Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians. Another By Friedrich Nietzsche Politicians State Statesman Concern Politics

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. By Friedrich Nietzsche State Monsters Mouth People Coldest

both the American and Texas State By John C. Dalglish State American Texas

Each state enjoys sovereign power. By Gouverneur Morris Power State Enjoys Sovereign

I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen. By Lindsey Graham Bus Throw State Happen

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states. By Herb Asher Time Transformation Long Period Undergoing

was the state he was aiming for. By J.c. Reed State Aiming

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund. By Craig T. Nelson California State Fund Longer Hedge

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion. By Mikhail Bakunin Incarnate Force State Worse Silly

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state? By Leila Aboulela Living Life State Imagine

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. By Carroll Quigley Greeks Romans State Society Thing

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is. By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj State Mind Accepted

You know, the state of Connecticut is ... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut. By Linda Mcmahon State Connecticut Endorsement Provincial Ultimately

The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves By Albert Einstein State Man Made Slaves Servant

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. By Kenneth Waltz Nature World Individuals States State

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper. By Peter Ueberroth State Deeper Control Binge Spending

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. By Chris Christie Crisis State Time Hurting People

The state's exclusive claim to violence to uphold its rule of law is, according to many, the very essence of statehood. For instance, in 1919, the eminent German sociologist Max Weber defined the state as "a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory."6 This definition remains widely used today, and states that cannot maintain a monopoly of force and endure civil war or frequent violent crime are routinely described as "weak," "fragile," or "failed" states. By Sean Mcfate Statehood State States Exclusive Violence

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear. By Emma Goldman Man State Existence Gods Devils

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power. By Thomas Jefferson States Power Knowlege

For a great state, qua state, is not one which embraces a great population or an extensive territory, but one which achieves a great intensity of social unity. And in this matter we must bear in mind that unity means unity of purpose and will, and not merely unity of action and result. One of the most significant reasons for refusing to attribute an unlimited degree of statehood to those associations which are legally known as states, is that their size is governed by considerations of commerce, mere whim, or by other limited ends, rather than by reference to the good life or the excellence of souls. By Michael Oakeshott Great Unity State Qua Territory

The state is for the recognition, endorsement, and protection of rights, which means creating the conditions under which rights can be recognized, endorsed, and protected. The state endures to create a sense of durability. A By Timothy Snyder Endorsement Endorsed Recognition Recognized Protected

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way. By Brian Sandoval Fortunately Good Policy True Principles

When states are absent, rights - by any definition - are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort. By Timothy Snyder Absent Definition Sustain States Impossible

THE STATE consists of a number of people who, having somehow got hold of it, make use of the machinery of coercion to the end that they might pursue their version of happiness without respect to the discipline of the market place. By Anonymous State Make Place Consists Number

That's Kansas. Or Missouri. One of those corn states. By Julia London Kansas Missouri States Corn

What constitutes a state? ... Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ... And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. By William Scott, 1St Baron Stowell Constitutes State Oer Sits Men

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana. By Dannel Malloy Ncaa Headquarters Indiana State Houses

I would rather be without a state than without a voice. By Edward Snowden Voice State

Whenever those states, which have been acquired as stated, have been accustomed to live under their own laws and in freedom, there are three courses for those who wish to hold them: the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third is to permit them to live under their own laws, drawing a tribute, and establishing within it an oligarchy which will keep it friendly to you. By Niccolo Machiavelli Live Laws States Stated Freedom

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right. By Martin O'malley Marriage Human State

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. By Henry George State Repeated Give

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms. By Pierre Trudeau Bedrooms State Place Nation

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. By Murray Rothbard State Large Immoral Grasping Society

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. By Oscar Wilde State Make Beautiful Individual

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens. By Joseph Story Feelings Affections Institutions Population State

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws. By Philip Berrigan Laws State Dealing

Sick of this StateOf that Stateless StatesThat moves at this rateThat Knocks at the GateAnd Yearns for the remains Of the brave new fate. By Khalid Chaouch Stateless Knocks Yearns Sick Fate

A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens. By Voltaire Composed Citizens State States Labour

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth. By Hans-Hermann Hoppe State Result Contract Contracts Ounce

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. By Ralph Waldo Emerson State Poor Good Friendly Beast

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show. By David Wain Snl Show Mad State Kind

All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State ... For Truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of history in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity. By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel State Possesses Universal Reality Worth

If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else. By Bernard Of Clairvaux Concentrate Hard State Suprising Time

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. By Tom Stoppard State Idea Limited Prescribed Realm

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation? By William E. Gladstone Nation State Warning Judgment Heavy

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals. By Bill Richardson People State Community Promise Potential

A star for every State, and a State for every star. By Robert Charles Winthrop State Star

Florida for Transition By Jim Curran Transition Florida

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it. By Albert Einstein State Heart Idea Needed Understand

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest. By Thomas Jefferson Constitution State States Government Federal

Freedom from desire is the best of states. By Thich Nhat Hanh Freedom States Desire

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members. By Mahatma Gandhi State Sacrifice Behalf Members Sum

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed. By H.g.wells State Mother Father Interests Totality

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state. By Joseph Sobran State Doomed Live Follow Thing

Even in the domain of conventional currencies, this trend is in evidence. Today, 14 U.S. states, namely, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, have taken action to create their own state currency, usually backed by a precious metal such as gold or silver.24 In the case of Utah, for example, the Utah Legislature has passed a bill allowing gold and silver coins to be used as legal tender in the state - and for the value of their precious metal, not just the face value of the coins. Utah's bill allows stores to accept gold and silver coins as legal tender. It also exempts gold and silver transactions from the state's capital gains tax, though that does not shield exchanges from federal taxes. By Bernard A. Lietaer Utah Carolina Gold Silver Coins

States strong enough to do good are but few.Their number would seem limited to three. By Robert Frost States Strong Good Fewtheir Number

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. By Hans-Hermann Hoppe Vacuum State Operates Legal Citizens

We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting. By Jim Davis State Group People Disgusting

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree. By Derek Theler Colorado Alaska State Grew Degree

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor. By Frank Chodorov State Thing People Human Labor

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. By Robert Pinsky State Jersey York Close Cosmopolitan

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way. By John Oliver Florida Shaped Combination Gun Act

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in. By Annie Laurie Gaylor Civil Simple Marriage Depend State

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home. By Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers Heart Home True State Union

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. By Mikhail Bakunin Begins Individual Ceases Versa State