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Quotes About State

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.
~ Scott McCallum
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
~ William Scranton
It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
~ William H. Wharton
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
~ Ernie Fletcher
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
~ Moshe Dayan
A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries
~ Philip Bobbitt
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
~ Tony Campolo
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
~ Dennis Prager
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
~ Herbert Spencer
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
~ Emma Goldman
Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.
~ Michael Tanner
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
~ Robert Frost
Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.
~ John M Swomley
Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.
~ Leonard Read
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~ Michael Newdow
The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.
~ Peter McWilliams
If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.
~ Rachel Maddow
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
~ Ron Paul
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
~ Tiffany Madison
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
~ Roy Moore
To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
~ George Mikes
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
~ Murray Rothbard