I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles. The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life

I don’t know, a lot of people go crazy about ‘Breaking Bad,’ but I don’t like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like ‘The Wire.’ It’s more about the state of things; it’s not about the narrative of a person.

The best baseball players are those who can handle success and failure with equal grace

I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.

I’m not going to stay here now and state, ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you should – must – erase any remnant of bigotry

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded…I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed…I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Communism doesn’t work because it is out of phase with human nature. Are we going to wake up one day to find this statement equally true when applied to the concept of Western democracy?

Everyone has an obligation to the state, it means an obligation to see that children are educated.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

The Bible is a manual for enslavement, for the subjugation of women, for the control of populations, for the genocidal extermination of competing tribes, for the dissolution of the autonomy of the powerful state, for the infiltration of human thought, for the diabolical control of those who wish to be free men and women.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.

There is nothing which is not an intermediate state between being and nothing.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

To change with change is the changeless state

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority–but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Happiness is a state of activity

A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

In a state of nature nothing can be said to be just or unjust; this is so only in a civil state, where it is decided by common agreement what belongs to this or that man.

I’ve built my homeland, I’ve even founded my state – in my language.