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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. Its become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. – E. L. Doctorow

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Im worried about parents who arent parenting. – Barbara Bush

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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. – William Hull

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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, dont make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan

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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. – Buffalo Bill

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