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Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

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.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

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.

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.