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

— Will Durant

“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

“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

“Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed by a…

— Mark R. Levin

“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.”

— J.Adam Snyder

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

— Ronald Reagan

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state -…

— Gunther Kress

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton