Citizens Quote by Benito Mussolini

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side.…

— Henrik Ibsen

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

— Eric Hoffer

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main…

— George Washington

There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state.

— Peter Morgan

This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant…

— Oscar Straus

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

“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

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to…

— H. L. Mencken