Committed Quote by Samora Machel

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

The interests of the state must come first.

— Louis XVI of France

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the…

— Pope Leo XIII

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that…

— Aristotle

First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so…

— Narendra Modi

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

— Sonny Perdue

State is the nation socially organized.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

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

— Oscar Wilde

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word…

— Elliot Richardson