State quotes

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?