Doe Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

— George Santayana

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small…

— Aristotle

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

— Hermann Broch

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

— Don DeLillo

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

— Terry Pratchett

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole…

— Murray Rothbard

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most…

— Enoch Powell