Aggressive Quote by Lester B. Pearson

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

— Randolph Bourne

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

— Sun Tzu

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

— Murray Rothbard

Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

— Noam Chomsky

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

— Werner Herzog

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore,…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best,…

— Lester B. Pearson

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

— Benjamin Tucker

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not…

— Anatole France