State Foundation Quotes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The sweetest violence to keep our enemies in check without resorting to open war is to populate the lands with our own people and fill them to such an extent that we instill respect in our feigned friends, the English, fear in our enemies, and obedience in the rebellious. Large numbers of people are the principal foundation of the Company's state in the Indies, without which it cannot exist.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Only the home can found a state.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

At the basis of Western states lie violence, slavery and enmity. At the basis of the Russian state lie goodwill, freedom and peace.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

All religions are extremely weak and none furnishes a foundation for the state ….

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.