"A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow."
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"The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion."
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"The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head."
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"The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock."
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"So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers."
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"I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me."
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"It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men."
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"One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough."
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"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested."
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"I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve."
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"Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax."
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"The basis of a democratic state is liberty"
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"Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy."
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"The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska."
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"Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations."
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"The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling."
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"Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed."
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"The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state."
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"In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness."
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"introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness"
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