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" Quotes and Sayings About states

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Afflict Destroy Plague State
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See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming.

See Sense Mind Stream
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Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

State Chief Mental Their
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Criticize Obvious Problem Care
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Class Right People Ultimate
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

People Promote Provide States
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Due Had Lincoln Look
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

Equlity Favor Marriage Act
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Law Randomly Enforced Written
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

America Children Idiots Protects
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Events Garment God Grasp
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Between Binding Cease Come
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Air America Attacked Date
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

Country Focus Forget Governing
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The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Biggest Oil Planet Problem
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Believe Conservative Fiscally Giving
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

American Community Decision Executive
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But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Acquire Caution Destruction He
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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

About American Anchor Been
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

Allowing America Believe Born
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Attack Choose Co-Operation Cooperate
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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Course Enemy Europeans Hamas
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

America Bracket Decade Imagine
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Contributor Efforts Greatest International
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Community Except Work International
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Another Arise Cleverness Confusion
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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Fellow Important Likes Me
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliance Close Despot Free
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive Free Good Security
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Bottom Society Country Split
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

America Europe Example Following
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Catholic Countries Ethic Good
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Civil Civil War Needed Properly
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Absolutely Big Countries Destroying
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So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Away Big Billion Business
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Based Been Date Ideas
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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

Actually Car Electric Fully
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Bizarre Disappear Universe Discovers
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