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Quotes 181 till 200 of 496.

  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Beilby Porteus In sober state,
    Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
    The venerable patriarch guileless held
    The tenor of his way.
    Death: A Poetical Essay
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Arthur Henderson In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Carl Paladino In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Hobbes In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • E. L. Doctorow In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Plutarch In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Billy Tauzin Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bill Flores Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ariel Sharon Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Marcel Proust It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Shapiro It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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