State

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

- Henri Amiel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.

- Claude Frédéric Bastiat Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

- Aristotle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am the State.

- Louis XIV Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

- John Kenneth Galbraith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

- Friedrich Engels Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes