Quotes About States

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Before long the impetus for prohibition spread to all of the states, and even without martial law their legislatures began to pass laws prohibiting distillation for any purposes other than medicinal use.

Consequently, as an admonition to all, he named this youngest boy States Rights Gist.

The future is so "intrinsically uncertain" that investors should focus heavily on avoiding permanent losses and building "a portfolio that can endure various states of the world.

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning.

The highly decentralized nature of the medieval world of Indian Ocean trade produced a bubbling stew of Darwinian economic competition, in which those states whose political "mutations" were best suited to trade and commerce thrived, and those whose institutions were not withered.

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.

In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption—again, coming from Smith's legacy—that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

Modern states are democratic, or at least it's generally felt they really should be. yet democracy, in modern states, is conceived very differently to, say, the workings of an assembly in an ancient city, which collectively deliberated on common problems. Rather, democracy as we have come to know it is effectively a game of winners and losers played out among larger-than-life individuals, with the rest of us reduced largely to onlookers.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.