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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.