Memorable Quotes About The State

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"The state is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat
"The state is not a thing; it’s a relationship among people."
Michael Parenti
"The state is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A government should be a machine of a certain kind; the people should control it. If the machine fails, the people should fix it."
James Madison
"It is the state that is the root of all evil."
Ludwig von Mises
"No man is a good citizen if he is not a good neighbor."
Cicero
"The state’s power is a reflection of the society’s consent."
Noam Chomsky
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"The state is the most dangerous superstition."
Lysander Spooner
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
Henrik Ibsen
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Frederic Bastiat
"The best government is that which governs least."
Henry David Thoreau
"In systems where the state is seen as part of the solution, it is necessary for statesmen to communicate their vision and values to the public."
Barack Obama
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Thomas Jefferson
"The state is a symbol of organized power, but it can also become a mechanism of oppression."
Howard Zinn
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
Maximilien Robespierre
"The chief function of the state is to maintain the conditions necessary for the production of goods."
Joseph Schumpeter
"State power is an instrument that can be employed for the public good or for its opposite, depending upon who holds it."
John Dewey
"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
John Stuart Mill
"Citizens have the right to be informed about their government."
James Madison
"A good government is a government that does not govern too much."
Winston Churchill
"The state that conquers is the state that knows how to provide."
Adolf Hitler
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"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
Jane Goodall
"Good men do nothing when evil men plot."
Edmund Burke
"The state exists for the sake of good citizens, not good citizens for the sake of the state."
Aristotle
"What we need is not the will to believe, but the will to act."
Ashleigh Brilliant
"There is no such thing as a good state, only a good people."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each one his due."
Justinian I

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