Individual Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

— Hugo Grotius

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

— Fred Rogers

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well…

— Dee Brown

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that…

— Thomas Jefferson

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that…

— John Stuart Mill

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

— Angela Carter

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

— Robert A. Heinlein