#state

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

#administration #barbarism #being #brought #carry

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#aim #all-out #attack #campaign #coalition

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States. ↗

— Will Smith

#becoming #committed #could #i #me

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#common #dictate #foreign #individual #magical

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'. ↗

— Raymond Smullyan

#correctly #critical #i #labeled #ones

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ↗

— Don Rickles

#building #eddie #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #empire

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cover #covering #fact #going #government

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength. ↗

— Pat Riley

#approach #concentration #mind #only #profound

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. ↗

— Terry Riley

#eating #food #get #highest #like

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#air #america #attacked #date #december