Collectives Quote by L. Neil Smith

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts…

— Alexander Hamilton

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Mahmoud Abbas

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

— John Bercow

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

— Anonymous

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

No resource will flourish if managed by government.

— James Cook

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

— Geoff Mulgan