States Quotes - Page 16

• EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Future, Raw Materials

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.61, 谷月社

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• We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Ideas, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.274, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Bible, God, Religious

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• The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of Christendom, and chiefly of the American states, must settle this problem, as yet new in the history of the world, abundant, as it has been, in experiments in the theory of government.

  Joseph Story

  Religious, Government, Support

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.700

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• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Rights, Perfect

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.179

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• The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Wall, Church

  Writing for the court, Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Advantage, Disorder

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.279

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• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Fear, Taken

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Men, Mind

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• I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Important, Church

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• There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Hopeful

  "Bush Renews Faith-Based Agenda Push". www.foxnews.com. June 01, 2004.

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• May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, United States

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Revolution, Rebellion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.129, Penguin

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• It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Children, War

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

  Aristotle

  Party, Believe, Matter

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.184, Aristotle

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• Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

  John Milton

  Angel, Sight, Host

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.315, Pearson Education

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wise, Wisdom, Fun

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• We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Loyalty, Exercise, Power

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• Sadness is a state of sin.

  Andre Gide

  Sadness, Sin

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• Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

  Arthur Miller

  Home, Agony, Hysteria

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