State Stability Quotes

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

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

Italy, which is inhabited only by a single race speaking the same language and professing the same religion, experiences so many difficulties in its unification. For the moment all it has achieved is anarchy and disorder. Judge what would happen in Turkey if free scope were given to all the different national aspirations …. It would need a century and torrents of blood to establish even a fairly stable state of affairs.

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

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.

Whichever of my sons inherits the Sultan’s throne, it behooves him to kill his brothers in the interest of world order. Most of the jurists have approved this procedure. Let action be taken accordingly.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

There shall be prohibition of fighting and bloodshed among the various communities of the state.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

A country that does not have stable institutions and a clear constitution cannot be successful.

The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation .... A nation cannot be confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

The government of a single person is no assurance of a stable and tranquil government.

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.