#state

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#days #enough #groups #guided #individual

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

#despots #free #never #safe #states

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#being #challenging #citizens #critical #critical role

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. ↗

— Tony Blair

#country #devastated #else #everyone #feel

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#child #childish #distorted #forth #gives

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#free #free state #granted #men #missouri

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. ↗

— Angela Davis

#around #became #because #country #demand

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#governments #live #means #message #must

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state. ↗

— Gray Davis

#doing #i #know #motives #negative

I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high. ↗

— Susan Davis

#i #marines #readiness #relieved #remain