State

"Happiness is a state of activity."

"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."

"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."

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

"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."

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

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"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."

"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."