State Danger Quotes

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

We have reasonable grounds to believe that the life of the state is being threatened

Monarches ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

Iran is a rogue state, a dangerous state. Iran spreads hatred all over the world.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

No foreign enemies could threaten so much danger to this kingdom as doth now this beggarly nation. [Scotland]

The danger to the state lies not in the intrusion of new thought but in the effort to stubbornly maintain the old state thought.

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.