Belonging Quote by Melville Fuller

“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to…

— G. Edward Griffin

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

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

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

— Hilaire Belloc

I believe in the state as a power for good.

— Amber Rudd

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

— Walter Lippmann

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another;…

— Albert Jay Nock

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even…

— Gustav Heinemann

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard