Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

The passion and will for freedom is always contradicted by the necessity of the state.

There is no force greater than the state force.

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

It has been held, right up to the present day, that the freedom of individual must take second place to the security of the State.....

For social movements seeking to shape the governance of the world economy, all roads still lead to the state.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.

War is the Health of the State.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.