Quotes about States

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

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

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

War is not an act of unchecked ruthlessness but a declared contest between bounded societies, or states. If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).