Crushed Quote by Murray Rothbard

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

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

— Randolph Bourne

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

— Joseph Sobran

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

— Christian Lous Lange

War is the Health of the State.

— Randolph Bourne

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

— Sun Tzu

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

— Sun Tzu

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

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the…

— Kenneth Waltz

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

— Paul Valery

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across…

— Joseph Stalin