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Quotes About States

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
~ Charles W. Pickering
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
~ Sam Houston
She laughed again. "You're terrible. What are you going to complain about in the States?" "The quality of winter strawberries." Hollis glanced at his watch.
~ Nelson DeMille
La presente Constitución, que nace de la voluntad de los pueblos y los estados de Europa de construir un futuro común, crea la Unión Europea, a la que los estados miembros confieren competencias para alcanzar sus objetivos comunes. La Unión coordinará las políticas de los estados miembros encaminadas a lograr dichos objetivos y ejercerá, de modo comunitario, las competencias que estos le transfieran.»
~ Niall Ferguson
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I say, then, that hereditary States, accustomed to the family of their Prince, are maintained with far less difficulty than new States, since all that is required is that the Prince shall not depart from the usages of his ancestors, trusting for the rest to deal with events as they arise.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred that they feel against the ruling power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
los cimientos indispensables a todos los Estados, nuevos, antiguos o mixtos, son las buenas leyes y las buenas tropas; y
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Ecclesiastical princes alone possess states, and do not defend them; subjects, and do not govern them. And though their states are not defended they are not taken away from them; and their subjects, being without government, do not worry about it and neither can hope to overthrow it in favour of another. So these principalities alone are secure and happy.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I have to say, if I live in Japan, I think I was going to have different life. There is too much attention. I feel like I'm a star there. But I think it's good thing that I live in States.
~ Kei Nishikori
Maybe this was my luck that I was in Munich the only one with a look like this, the only one with an image like this. But in the States, there is a lot of more competition.
~ Rob Pilatus
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
~ Dexter Gordon
In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.
~ Annalee Newitz
For example, under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not tax people directly, as we do today, but must ask for money from the states, which could raise it however they wanted.
~ Christopher Collier
The South claimed the sovereignty of States, but claimed the right to coerce into their confederation such States as they wanted, that is, all the States where slavery existed. They did not seem to think this course inconsistent.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
that time Mr. Trist handed in his ultimatum. Texas was to be given up absolutely by Mexico, and New Mexico and California ceded to the United States for a stipulated sum to be afterwards determined. I do not suppose Mr. Trist had any discretion whatever in regard to boundaries. The war was one of conquest, in the interest of an institution, and the probabilities are that private instructions were for the acquisition of territory out of which new States might be carved.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. If they had foreseen it, the probabilities are they would have sanctioned the right of a State or States to withdraw rather than that there should be war between brothers.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
It is usually judged dead last in terms of the cost of doing business. Translated, that means that small-business operators relocated to more business-friendly states (for example, seventy thousand Californians on average have left for Texas alone each year of the last decade, and the rate is climbing to over eighty thousand per year), as did
~ Victor Davis Hanson
In democratic states, the only governments founded on justice, it sometimes happens that a faction usurps power; then the whole rises up, and the necessary vindication of its right may go so far as armed conflict.
~ Victor Hugo
States without any legal minimum wage, or with one below the federal minimum, are Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.
~ Kurt Andersen
There are confederates lying in this hospital, they say; so there is union at last, a united states of pain.
~ Geraldine Brooks
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.This is what makes America what it is.
~ Gertrude Stein
Don't get me wrong. A thinker thought, maybe it was Ortega y Gasset, that a country is in decadence when the parts no longer want to be part of the totality. It happened in the Soviet Union, it happened in Spain, it will happen in the States.
~ Giannina Braschi