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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.