Quotes About States

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

When it comes to the southern states, I used to actually live in Louisiana for a year.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

No nostálgico livro Levant [Levante], Philip Mansel documenta de que modo as cidades do Mediterrâneo Oriental operavam como cidades-estados separadas do interior.

Esse é o argumento que David Hume, em sua História da Inglaterra,5 apresenta em favor dos pequenos Estados, já que os grandes cedem à sedução da guerra.

Seventeenth-century West Africa was even more politically fragmented than Europe. A map prepared by Thornton shows more than sixty different states of wildly varying size.

Given the disparity in the size of the states, it's entirely possible that the majority of states are doing worse while the majority of Americans are doing better. The key lesson is to pay attention to the unit of analysis.

It was a potent reminder why most European states and America live in such opulence and determine the fate of so many others. We equip and train the most efficient killers on the planet.