I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The responsibility of great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

While the state exists there is no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no state.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

A state worthy of the name has no friends-only interests.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

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

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.

The State is made for man, not man for the State.