More Quote by Murray Rothbard

“though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which…

— George Orwell

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength

— Georg Buchner

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to…

— H. L. Mencken

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon

— Livy

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant…

— George Orwell

The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the…

— Adolf Hitler

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and…

— Daniel Berrigan

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form…

— Vladimir Lenin

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

— John Mearsheimer

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

— Publilius Syrus