States Quotes

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine -- the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit.

The nation-state has become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems.

If two fish fight, the British are behind it.

The Jewish State Der Judenstaat

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

To make a State appear necessary, any would-be State must first destroy the natural order and create a Hobbesian "anarchy" characterized by looting and vandalizing.

The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact created them as States.

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

The state of the land of Israel, the kings and people thereof, in peace and war, is proved figurative and ceremonial, and no pattern nor precedent for any kingdom or civil state in the world to follow.

The Union we intend to keep, and loyal states will not let disloyal ones break it.

I am no longer a Virginian. I am an American.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

A single courageous state can if its citizen’s choose, serve as a laboratory…. One of the happy incidents of the federal system … novel social and economic experiments can be tried without risk to the rest of the country.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

The small land holders are the most precious part of a state.

The object of Socialism is not to render the individual capable of living on his personal resources. That is the theory of radical individualism. Its object is to create in him a greater and greater sense of his dependence upon the state, and, at the same time, to inculcate in him the conviction that he is a part of it and that he has a duty and responsibility toward the state; and that only in so far as he fulfills this duty can he benefit by the advantages of a complete personal and social life.

Until 1847 Switzerland remained a pure Confederation of States, that is to say, she took five and a half centuries to make the step which the United States achieved at once.

Mr. Brandeis is perfectly infatuated with the work that you have done along the lines of Zionism. It would have done your heart good to have heard him assert what a valuable contribution to the cause your document is. In fact he agrees with me that you are the Father of Zionism, as your work antedates Herzl.

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce;... the powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and prosperities of the people.

The sovereignty of states is a fairly archaic notion. If the rulers abuse their power and the people, what do you do then. The must be an international duty to protect.