Affluence Quote by Murray Rothbard

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

— Herb Asher

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

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care,…

— Cynthia Kauffman

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

— Arthur Capper

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

— Ronald Reagan

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require…

— John Adams

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education…

— Anna Lindh

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman