Administration Quote by Pope Leo XIII

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

— Adam Smith

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear…

— Samora Machel

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 must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

— Samora Machel

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow…

— Adolf Hitler

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it.…

— Chrystia Freeland

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government…

— Dick Thornburgh

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is…

— Thomas Jefferson