State Quotes

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in larg...

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does i...

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We o...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to de...

A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful l...

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal fre...

A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power w...

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or ...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learn...

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, becau...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The go...

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for i...

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what...

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous...

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in...

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'...

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental l...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become ...

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it ...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the en...

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...

All oppression creates a state of war.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in the...

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either ...

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attr...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never...

We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion in...

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bo...

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's y...

In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete sep...

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a co...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Li...