Action Quote by William Beveridge

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid…

— Herman Kahn

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

— William Godwin

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes…

— Vladimir Putin

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

“Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than one that…

— Guy Standing

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated,…

— Otto von Bismarck

Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense…

— Murray Rothbard

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker