Fear Quote by John Bruton

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

Because there is no world government to protect states from one another, major powers are acutely sensitive to threats - especially near their borders…

— John Mearsheimer

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in…

— Vaclav Havel

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

— Mahmoud Abbas

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory…

— Lester B. Pearson

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes…

— Vladimir Putin

“No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics, lucky enough…

— Richard Overy

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst…

— George Washington

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick