Quotes About State

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

True Freedom Is An Inner Thing. It Is A State Of Mind. It Is A Deliberate Exercise Of Choice. Thus, If We Think We Are Bound By An External Forces, We Are Deceiving Ourselves.

True Freedom Is An Inner Thing. It Is A State Of Mind. It Is A Deliberate Exercise Of Choice. Thus, If We Think We Are Bound By External Forces, We Are Deceiving Ourselves.

Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.

Ar fi ca un l?ca? de stat cu capul în mâini în mijlocul sufletului.

Well Pa, revenooers don't never mess up with nobody in these parts, do they?" "I never heerd tell of 'em botherin' ary man. Floridy is a fine state that-a-way. Folkses here is the best in the world to mind their own business and not go interferin' in nobody else's.

As much as Anabaptist teachings anticipated later Western convictions about the separation of church and state, at least in the sixteenth century their beliefs were regarded by Catholics and Protestants alike as grave threats to the stability of European Christian society.

The Anabaptists' rejection of infant baptism and their insistence upon adult baptism after an individual profession of faith grew out of a desire to distinguish Christianity from state citizenship, as well as from a fresh interpretation of teaching about baptism in the New Testament.

He did not understand, he admitted to himself, how these elections worked. They seemed such a waste of effort to attain a dubious outcome. Better to know what is best for the people and give it to them by force, if necessary, until they are re-educated about their duties to the State.