Dignity Quote by Rod Serling

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

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

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

— Sophocles

The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any…

— Rod Serling

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

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right…

— Abraham Lincoln

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

— Rose Wilder Lane

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if…

— Sukarno

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

— Sophocles