“The federal lawsuit filed in Chicago claims Outfox Hospitality violated federal and state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts when it abruptly closed all Foxtrot and Dom's stores on Tuesday and laid off workers without warning.”— Todd Feurer, cbsnews.com
“Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.”— Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Maury the Hormone Monster, Nick Kroll, imdb.com
“Humanity - it's not a state - it's a... it's a quality.”— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Leo Elster, Colin Morgan, imdb.com
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Democracy isn't dying in darkness, it's being murdered in broad daylight.”— Mohamad Safa, twitter.com
“A dependence is, I think, a wretched state and you have enough if you will manage it right.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit—in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“If people always thought this way, there could never be progress or innovation or change. We would be stagnant forever, fearfully clinging to a past that was never as good as we like to pretend it was.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“I think one of the saddest things about the current state of our democracy is that people seem to think they should vote based on what is best for them as individuals, rather than what is best for the country as a whole.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“I rely confidently on the patriotism of the people, on the dignity and self-respect of the States, on the wisdom of Congreess, and, above all, on the continued gracious favor of Almighty God to maintain against all enemies, whether at home or abroad, the sanctity of the Constitution and the integrit…”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“The capitalist State does not deal much with economy in the strict sense of the word; the latter is not in the hands of the State. On the contrary, the State is in the hands of capitalist economy.”— Joseph Stalin, newstatesman.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an indep…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, But Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“This is the most critical line in the dirt in our state's history. Not only for the disaster but for the opportunity it has created. In the past, we have either not had the motivation or the money or the consensus.”— Jim Brown, successories.com