You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...
You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?