State

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Richard Burr
Light
Reality
State
Will
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.
Richard Burr
State
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
John Burns
Men
War
Lying
Man
Now
Office
State
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
Conrad Burns
Life
People
Montana
Rest
State
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Kenneth Burke
Act
State
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
People
Leaders
Legislators
Popularity
Service
State
Will
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
Change
Conservation
State
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Martin Van Buren
Civilization
Hope
Attention
Country
State
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Jim Bunning
Marriage
People
Strategy
Being
Decisions
Extreme
Now
Rest
State
Trying
Voice
Will
Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
John Buford
Enemy
Excitement
State
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Self
State
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
Peace
Fear
State
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant
Cause
State
World
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant
Cause
State
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
Bill Bruford
Being
State