Great Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself…

— Victor Hugo

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to…

— Anonymous

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

— Thomas Jefferson

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

— Murray Rothbard