The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
