State

"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."

"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."

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

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."

"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected."

"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites."

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"Happiness is a state of activity."