States Quotes - Page 33

• Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Government, Forever

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

  John Anderson

  People, Democracy, Ignored

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• Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

  David Ricardo

  Paper, Economics, Paper Money

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.215, London, J. Murray

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• If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Gay, Issues, Answers

  "Hollingsworth v. Perry (Prop 8) (Oral Arguments)". genius.com. March 26, 2013.

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• The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Class, Misunderstood

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

  Fernand Braudel

  Fashion, Degrees, Economics

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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• You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Gay, Two, Saying No

  "The eight exchanges you should read from today’s gay marriage arguments". Supreme Court oral arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act, www.washingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

  Stephen Breyer

  Children, Mean, Gay

  Supreme Court Arguments On California Gay Marriage Ban, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.

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• I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I'm troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage. I've watched carefully what's happened in San Francisco where licenses were being issued, even though the law states otherwise. I have consistently stated that I will support law to protect marriage between a man and a woman. And obviously these events are influencing my decision.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "The Legal Argument Against Gay Marriage". "The Big Story" With John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2004.

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• The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Party, Believe, Ideas

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• I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

  G. W. Smith, John Stuart Mill (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments”, p.262, Psychology Press

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• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Power, Roles, Gains

  "Afghanistan in the '80s was superpowers' battle over Eurasia - Brzezinski". The RT Interview, www.rt.com. September 21, 2010.

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• The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Acquiescence, News

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.108, City Lights Books

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• It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being made out of green cheese - it does not exist. Powerful states have quite typically considered themselves to be exceptionally magnificent, and the United States is no exception to that. The basis for it is not very substantial to put it politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Moon, Green

  Interview with "The Young Turks", October 26, 2010.

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• Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Want, United States

  "Distorted Morality: America’s War on Terror?". Talk at Harvard University, chomsky.info. February 2002.

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• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mean, Responsibility

  Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, November 17, 1946.

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Philosophy, Law, Hands

  "Justice and Fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  Gary Becker

  Philosophy, Punishment, Political

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• [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

  John C. Calhoun

  Philosophy, Reality, Class

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• On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, People, Creative

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• I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Views

  John Maynard Keynes (1988). “Keynes and Public Policy After Fifty Years: Theories and method”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Men, Goal

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