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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

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.

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

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

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

In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.