Awful Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

— John Anderson

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

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 States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst…

— George Washington

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only…

— Bertrand Russell

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more…

— Bernie Sanders

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

— Salman Rushdie

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this…

— Kevin Starr

A state may well not survive its writers telling its people the truth

— Anonymous