Joseph Conrad Quotes

Claim the State. Claim the nation.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

The fate of this government depends absolutely upon raising it above the state governments.

We are the beast of state government.

I wouldn't say the nation-state is dead, but the Sovereignty has been greatly circumscribed ... even for a country as large as the U. S.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State Legislature.

Government has ever been careful to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

Palestinians have balked every time their longed-for nationhood has come within grasp. They have seemed to prefer the aggrieved dignity of their resentments to the challenges of nationhood.

We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.