State Quotes

“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”

“The state is not the kingdom of God.”

“To be a leftist is to be a statist.”

“Liberals are the flying buttresses of the state.”

“The law is a racket. So is the state. So are the corporations.”

“The police state is not a Christian state.”

“I am a West Virginian. It is a badge of honor.”

“My first love and my last love will be the people of West Virginia.”

“The needs of the state are superior to any law.”

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... or the destruction of States, and new life starting again.”

“Voting is just a way of choosing your master.”

“The job of the intellectual is not to be a cheerleader for the state.”

“The State of Israel will not be a theological state.”

“When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it... 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”

“For a constitution is the soul of a state, and it has the same power as the mind in the body; for it is this that counsels concerning everything, and preserves what is good, and avoids what is disastrous.”

“Any real state, any real sovereign, has a monopoly on violence. That’s what defines a state.”

“The State is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity.”

“Every state is a military state.”

“War is the health of the state.”

“War is the health of the State.”