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Monday, May 20th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'State'

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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman (1935-  )
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman (1935-  )
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman (1935-  )
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman (1935-  )
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey, American Author (1927-1989)
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet (1881-1938)
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.
Neil Abercrombie, American Politician (1938-  )
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it.
Neil Abercrombie, American Politician (1938-  )
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
Ralph Abernathy, American Activist (1926-1990)
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean Acheson, American Statesman (1893-1971)
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton, British Historian (1834-1902)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, American President (1735-1826)
New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples.
Michael Adams, -
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher (1852-1902)
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler, German Educator (1851-1933)
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Aeschines, Greek Statesman
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
Giovanni Agnelli, Italian Designer (1866-1945)
 
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