Quotes about State
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
— Jimmy Carter
Indeed, it's an irony that the figure who most embodies the values people associate with the state is a narcissistic Manhattan billionaire now sitting in the Oval Office.
— Lawrence Wright
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
— Samuel Johnson
I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
— Albert Einstein
But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .
— Aldous Huxley
I'm also very pleased at the fact we're well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you're going to be pro-life, you should - you should be pro-adoption.
— Mike Pence
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
— Anonymous
I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.
— Michelle Obama
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.
— Todd Young
Edith had danced herself into that tired, dreamy state habitual only with débutantes, a state equivalent to the glow of a noble soul after several long highballs.
— F Scott Fitzgerald