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States should have the right to enact laws......

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness, end, life

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing...

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Quote by Benito Mussolini about state, nothing

By the same token it must follow that the state we now call a small state is in reality a power if it plays such a role in the development of civilization that it marches in the front ranks and wins victories in the fight for law which surpass...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about state, evolution, civilization, fight, reality, law, power

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary...

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Quote by Thomas Paine about guvernement, state

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, ...

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one.

Quote by Thomas Paine about society, state

New York state spends more per pupil than any other state...

New York state spends more per pupil than any other state in America on education.

Quote by George Pataki about state, education

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about state, duty, rightness

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary...

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Quote by Mike Pence about state, americans, people

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal...

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

Quote by Li Peng about war, state, commerce

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Quote by Juan Ramón Jiménez about poetry, culture, state, grace, literature

The poet is not only a savior, but he is the savior of...

The poet is not only a savior, but he is the savior of the words. He takes out the words from their natural state and gives them a state of grace.

Quote by Lucian Blaga about poetry, state, grace, poets

Every man is the author of his own state of health or...

Every man is the author of his own state of health or state of ilness.

Quote by Buddha about people, state, man

Divinitiy is the abstract and impersonal state of God.

Divinitiy is the abstract and impersonal state of God.

Quote by Emil Cioran about god, state

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, state

Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.

Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, state

We were by no means naive as to think that these fundamental changes in the historical direction of the post-colonial Nigerian state was going to be painless or yield instant results.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about state

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Quote by Charles Babbage about influence, principle, knowledge, state, country

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she...

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Quote by Edward Abbey about state, woman, rightness

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality, present, americans, state, perfection, day, world

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about age, olderness, school, state

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