States Quotes

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.