Quotes About State

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

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'.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.