(noun) A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
"The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites."
"Happiness is a state of activity."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."
"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."