Small States Quotes

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent. — Susan Rice

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. — Allen West

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead. — Robert D. Kaplan

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish. — Laozi

You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest subsidies? — Lee Child

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream. — Jonathan Culver

The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. — Eliot Engel

Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call. — Conan O'Brien

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. — Winston Churchill

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. — William Gibson

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. — Ronald Reagan

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. — Thomas Jefferson

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. — Pearl S. Buck

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. — Bill Vaughan

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars ... we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris. — Andrew Greeley

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. — Stendhal

The prison is the state writ small. — Mason Cooley

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. — Sallust