States Quotes - page 3

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. (John Maynard Keynes)
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. View quote
Martin Luther
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
United States: the country where liberty is a statue. View quote
Nicanor Parra
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. View quote
George Balanchine
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. (Christian Lous Lange)
There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry. View quote
Curtis Stone
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. View quote
Doug Larson
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. View quote
Bianca Jagger
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. View quote
Maurice Ashley
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. View quote
Gore Vidal
Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family But not much in between unless a college. View quote
Robert Frost
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. (Margaret Mead)
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. View quote
Edward Said
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. View quote
Spiro Agnew
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. View quote
William Cobbett