Others Quote by John C. Calhoun

It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate,…

— James A. Garfield

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation…

— Margaret Thatcher

“When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want…

— Michael Ignatieff

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of…

— Murray Rothbard

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 that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard