Authority Quote by John McCain

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver…

— Geoff Mulgan

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“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 State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

— Murray Rothbard

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

— Benjamin Tucker

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political…

— Sheldon Richman

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

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

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

— Roy Moore