Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
