No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.
In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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 idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
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