Quotes About State

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

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.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.