Arrogant Quote by Margaret Thatcher

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 natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole…

— Murray Rothbard

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you…

— Emma Goldman

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

— Christine and the Queens

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

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found…

— Franklin Knight Lane

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

— Michelle Bachelet

There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in…

— Charles Koch

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

— Andrew Jackson