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In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt

Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT. — Michele Bachmann

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation — Sunday Adelaja

An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. — Bryan Stevenson

For the whole country is full of soldiers, still kept up in time of peace (if such a state of a nation can be called a peace); — Thomas More

We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality. — Andrew Cuomo

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. — Ronald Reagan

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Virginia, a state with one of the highest concentrations of scientific talent in the world, led the nation in denying education to its youth. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant. — John Quincy Adams

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. — Gertrude Stein

Cyber will be part of any future conflict
whether it's a nation state or terrorism, — Cofer Black

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong. — Max Gallo

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. — Voltaire

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have. — Warren Ellis

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state. — Michael Gove

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable. — Rick Scott

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. — George Will

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood. — Wayne Allard

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. — Pierre Trudeau

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth? — Albert Allen Bartlett

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more. — Martin O'Malley

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human — Sathya Sai Baba

It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors. — Chris Hedges

The Nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans ... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much. — Reggie Miller

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. — Pierre Trudeau

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders — Woodrow Wilson

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. — John Baldacci

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it. — Pedro Pierluisi

State is the nation socially organized. — Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state. — Jeff Sessions

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. — Grace Lee Boggs

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation ... — Alexander Hamilton

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes. — Rebecca Solnit

Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance. — Paul Levy

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world. — Robert Gilpin

Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence. — Matt Ridley

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus ... on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory

The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups. — Russell Brand

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority. — Mel Carnahan

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time. — Sally Magnusson

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. — Bryan Stevenson

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. — Vaclav Klaus

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

American is the first democratic nation-state. — Stephen Ambrose

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation. — Pedro Pierluisi

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, — William J. Clinton

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. — John Steinbeck

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people. — Narendra Modi

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation? — William E. Gladstone

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it. — Narendra Modi

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms. — Pierre Trudeau

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order. — Cal Thomas

The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it. — Adolf Hitler

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place. — Sebastian Junger

The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements. — Neal Stephenson

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state. — Ron Paul

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it.
Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse — Carl Sagan

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased. — Herbert Hoover