Citizens Quote by Leo Tolstoy

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

— Ksenia Sobchak

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

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security…

— Alexander Hamilton

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

— Jeremy Bentham

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to…

— Wolfgang Schauble

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

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

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep…

— Albert J. Nock