States sayings | saying.tel

Sayings about States:

It would certainly be for the good of mankind to have all the mighty empires and monarchies of the world cantoned out into petty states and principalities.: Joseph Addison

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident, as to perpetuate their happiness.: Francis Atterbury

The multiplying of nobility brings a state to necessity; and in like manner when more are bred scholars than preferments can take off.: Francis Bacon

It is a great error, and a narrowness of mind, to think that nations have nothing to do one with another except there be either an union in sovereignty, or a conjunction in pacts or leagues: there are other hands of society and implicit confederations.: Francis Bacon

Let princes choose ministers such as love business rather upon conscience than upon bravery.: Francis Bacon

In states, arms and learning have a concurrence or near sequence in time.: Francis Bacon

Religion is not only useful to civil society, but fundamental to its very birth and constitution.: Richard Bentley

Frugality of manners is the nourishment and strength of bodies politic; it is that by which they grow and subsist until they are corrupted by luxury, the natural cause of their decay and ruin.: Bishop George Berkeley

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.: Sir Thomas Browne

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.: Edmund Burke

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.: Edmund Burke

When by a cold penury I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill I may do is beyond all calculation.: Edmund Burke

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is more difficult, in general, than to make a nation perceive anything as true, or seek its own interest, in any manner but as its forefathers have opined and acted.: Henry Hallam

Ill fares the state Where many masters rule; let one be Lord, One king supreme.: Homer

Two foundations bear up all public societies: the one, inclination whereby all men desire sociable life; the other an order agreed upon touching the manner of their union in living together: the latter is that which we call the law of a commonweal.: Richard Hooker

It is no impossible thing for states, by an oversight in some one act or treaty between them and their potent opposites, utterly to cast away themselves forever.: Richard Hooker

I shall easily grant that notations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths.: Archbishop Laud

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.: John Stuart Mill

I shall believe that there cannot be a more ill-boding sign to a nation, than when the inhabitants, to avoid insufferable grievances at home, are enforced by heaps to forsake their native country.: John Milton

A state would be happy where philosophers were kings or kings were philosophers.: Plato

In states notoriously irreligious a secret and irresistible power countermands their deepest projects, splits their counsels, and smites their most refined policies with frustration and a curse.: Robert South

Though we cannot prolong the period of a commonwealth beyond the decree of heaven, or the date of its nature, any more than human life beyond the strength of the seminal virtue, yet we may manage a sickly constitution, and preserve a strong one.: Jonathan Swift

The ruin of a state is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion, which is entirely our case at present.: Jonathan Swift

Revolutions of state, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad.: Sir William Temple

Commonwealths were nothing more in their original but free cities; though sometimes, by force of order and discipline they have extended themselves into mighty dominions.: Sir William Temple

The command in war is given to the strongest, or to the bravest; and in peace, taken up and exercised by the boldest.: Sir William Temple

Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.: George Washington

More Information: Directory information
States sayings

States – famous sayings and quotes.
Saying.tel – site for mobile phones.

Powered by: