Debt by founding fathers Quote by Alexander Hamilton

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation…

— Margaret Thatcher

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

— John Witherspoon

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

— Hans F. Sennholz

“A politician has positions. A statesman has convictions, and pledges his life, fortune, and sacred honor to defend and advance them. Unfortunately, the other…

— Steve Deace

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of…

— Lord Acton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and…

— Anonymous