Best limits & states Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.”

Needs States Differences Party Movement Limits Tea Perceive Recognizing Tea Party Tea Party Movement

Author:Mike Lee

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Ideas States Order Loses Natural Animal Ought Limits Plant Size No Idea Consumerism Spoiled Overconsumption

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.”

Giving Doe States Ability Limits Absolutes Finals Certainty Assurance Prevailing

Book:Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

Source: Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”

“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.”

Humans States Shows Exercise Limits Tendencies Human Life Disputes Great Power

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.”

People Giving Doe States Today Able Accepting Vision Acceptance Demand Limits Giving Up Concern Boundaries Commit Factors Fixed Aspiration Renounce Zionist Zionism Partition

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.”

States Political Limits Highest Importance Aim Agency Inquiry

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.”

World States Situation Limits Inward True Freedom

Author:Jack Canfield

“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.”

Thinking Feels Doe States Political Rooms Powerful Principles Rights Limits Authority Stronger Majority Liberalism Spite Expenses Political Rights

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.”

Ifs Should War States Peace Cities Support Limits Creating Weapons Claims Murder Killing Refuse Protection Traffic Offense Anarchist Hazards Pacifist Misdemeanors

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”

“Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.”

“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.”

“The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.”

“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”

Thinking World Giving Humans States Facts Seems Values Turns Fear Pay Crazy Limits Benefits Adults Stupidity Dues Enjoyment Boredom Meanness Questionable Respectability

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.”

“We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.”

Mind States Body America Church Limits Supposed To Be Mind And Body Inappropriate Inconsistent

Author:Hugh Hefner

“A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.”

States Political Politics Term Achieve Blessing Limits Congress Amendments Term Limits Constitutional Amendments

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.”

States Heaven Growth Limits Weight Collapse Prosperous Edifice

Book:Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars

Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars

“Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.”

Mind States Moments Joy Spirit Demand Limits Absolutes Mirrors Factors Contentment That Moment State Of Mind Routes Liberated Coordination

Author:Wolfgang Gullich

“State governor is certainly nothing to be sneered at! But I don't think that there are still limits here. A gay man could presumably also become chancellor.”

Thinking Men Stills States Gay Limits Governors Gay Men

Author:Jens Spahn

“In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society.”

World Mean Country States Individual Term United United States Limits Relation Coercion Interpersonal

Book:Chomsky on Democracy and Education

Source: Chomsky on Democracy and Education

“If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.”

Ifs Mean States Amount Limits Available Spending Unnecessary Expenditures

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing - in which case they would soon be overflowing. Or we can show responsibility and organize a distribution system that takes into account the limits of each individual member state. Migrants, for their part, must recognize that, while they have a right to protection, they do not have the right to freely choose the country. In addition, it is clear: Not everybody can come to us.”

Two Country States Shows Individual Responsibility Cases Clear Limits Members Accounts Protection Operations Organize Distribution Greece Migrants Two Options

Author:Martin Schulz

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.”

States Individual Limits Property Operations Spheres Private Property

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.”

“As president, I will ensure that the United States is the global energy powerhouse of the 21st century.That means reinstating the Keystone XL Pipeline that President[Barack] Obama rejected. It also means rolling back the regulations from this administration that limit our ability to find resources by imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing and our ability to be energy independent by regulating drilling on federal lands. As president, I will make America an energy leader through technology and innovation.”

“The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district.”

Years Wells Long States Enough Law Individual President United Opinion United States Limits Eight Serving Representatives

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.”

Knows Feels Long War States Government United United States Limits Decided Terrorism Long Ago State Government United States Government

Author:Barack Obama

“Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.”

States Nations Offers Limits Europe Globalization

Author:Martin Schulz

“What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.”

Years Made Country States Interesting Groups Citizens Limits Election Campaigns Locals Discussion Election Years

Author:Ralph Nader

“I think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.”

Thinking Should States Would Be United Mistake United States Four Limits Corners Graves Welcome Allies

Author:Gerald Horne

“One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.”

Ifs Country States Opportunity Speak Language My Own United United States Limits Oneself Immigrants You Choose Polish

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.”

“Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.”

States Secret Careers Limits Doctrine Administration Barack

Author:Nat Hentoff

“The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.”

Ifs Way Wells States Government Remember Order Achieve Limits Speech Impact Zone Free Speech Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Edward Snowden

“[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that's why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That's the problem with the American role.”

“John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.”

“I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.”

World States Government Strong United United States Mets Limits Critics Credit

Author:Robert Scheer

“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”

Want War States Nations Peace Influence Limits Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.”

States Limits Preserves Founders

Author:Mike Pence

“There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.”

Persons Different Country States Born United United States Subjects Birth Limits Accounts Constitution Judged Allegiance Treason Syllables Territorial

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”

Inspirational States Goal Limits Dignity Wretched Knowing Who You Are

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.”

States Sky Limits Empty Function Financing Contractor Sky Is The Limit

Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.”

World States Facts Government Lasts Humanity Choices Evil Principles Greater Modern Reader Limits Capacity Presses Newspapers Modern World Dregs Clearness Degeneration

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.”

Source: 1984

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

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