Boston is a state of mind.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Attributed. This quotation has also been attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain.

Man is by nature a political animal; it is his nature to live in a state.

-Aristotle
c.330  BC  Politics, bk.1, ch.2,1253a (translated by T  A Sinclair).

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

-Astell, Mary
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

But if marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, is it not to be wondered that so few succeed, we should rather be surprized to find so manydo, considering how imprudently menengage, the motive they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.

-Astell, Mary
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

   There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.11,'Of Great Place'.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.22,'Of Cunning'.

In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.58,'Of  Vicissitude of  Things'.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Voluntary  Action, ch.12.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 4:11.

Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.2129^31.

A state withoutthemeans of some change iswithout the means of its conservation.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

I stood inVenice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when manya subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, WhereVenice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza1.

Toutes les re¤  volutions modernes ont abouti a'   un renforcement de l'Etat. All modernrevolutionshave ended in a reinforcement of the State.

-Camus, Albert
L'Homme re¤ v olte¤  .

California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

-Chandler, Raymond
  The Little Sister, ch.13.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.

-Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy
  A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.

The discumbered Atlas of the state.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Retirement'.

The state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

-Cromwell, Oliver
  Said before the Battle of Marston Moor, 2  Jul.

President Bush†seems to think that the ship [of state] will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores.

-Cuomo, Mario Matthew
  Address nominating Bill Clinton as Democratic presidential candidate,15  Jul.

As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

-Davison, Emily Wilding
  Comment on uncompleted Census paper, quoted in Gertrude Colmore The Life of Emily  Wilding Davison (1913).