Quotes with states

Quotes 81 till 100 of 301.

  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Bill Haslam If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Richard Nixon If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bernie Sanders In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Jeffery Chamberlain In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
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  • Aldous Huxley In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernie Sanders In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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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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  • Bobby Scott In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Myriam Miedzian In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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