Top 58 Small States Quotes
#2. [at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.
James Madison
#3. For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
#4. The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
Olympia Snowe
#5. The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
Bill Vaughan
#6. My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
Susana Martinez
#7. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.
Conan O'Brien
#9. When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#10. The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
Susan Rice
#11. As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.
Leonard Boswell
#12. There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.
George Carlin
#13. A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.
Edward Luttwak
#14. I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
Louis Farrakhan
#16. You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest subsidies?
Lee Child
#17. You want your diversified stock portfolio to include stocks from different industries, large companies, small companies, companies here in the United States, foreign companies, new companies, and old companies.
Suze Orman
#18. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.
Robert D. Kaplan
#19. As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
John Boyd Orr
#20. There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
Ellen Page
#21. Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
John O. Brennan
#22. I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
Bob Graham
#23. Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
Mohsin Hamid
#24. If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to ... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
Paul Broun
#25. The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
Jean Monnet
#26. The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#27. Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo
hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car,
you might get stopped.
James Patterson
#28. Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.
Mohamed Nasheed
#29. The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.
Marc Ostrofsky
#30. In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
Linda Ronstadt
#31. The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.
Lysander Spooner
#32. The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.
James Madison
#33. The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.
Mark Twain
#34. Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
Robert D. Kaplan
#35. The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
Mara Liasson
#36. Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
#37. When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
John D. Barrow
#38. When I looked at a map in town, Rhode Island seemed lost up there in the corner. A state so small and crowded, there didn't seem to be room for a person at all.
Michelle Hoover
#39. I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
John Pomfret
#40. The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Winston Churchill
#41. Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
#42. It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
Josiah Strong
#43. Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.
Dan Quayle
#44. Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan
#45. Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Eliot Engel
#46. Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.
Amy Goodman
#47. In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
Jonathan Culver
#48. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
Wolfgang Schauble
#49. I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.
Stephen Harper
#50. Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.
Laozi
#51. Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.
Melania Trump
#52. Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars ... we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
Andrew Greeley
#53. This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States.
Isabel Allende
#54. All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
Pearl S. Buck
#55. Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
Allen West
#56. The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
Stendhal
#57. Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.
Bernie Sanders
#58. But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.
Alexis De Tocqueville
