Government Quote by Harold Laski

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

— Colin Ward

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

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

— Asma Jahangir

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

— Hassan Nasrallah

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states'…

— Robert Kennedy

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best,…

— Lester B. Pearson