Quotes About States

mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

But I remember what Old Joe Hunt said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.

But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.

how I longed to find an authority above the nations, a law above all states, capable of giving legal aid to an individual abused and rendered without rights by his state.

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.