Active Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still…

— Barack Obama

“despite the absence of a real state monopoly on violence, early states were much more formidable structures than chiefdoms. And everywhere they appear, they…

— David Christian

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

— Nancy Pelosi

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were…

— Rush Limbaugh

“These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and…

— Henry Hazlitt

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have,…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York.…

— Bill McKibben