3 Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes on State

Wilhelm von Humboldt quotes on state

1. Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich uberflussing macht.

7. The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance-nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

15. All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.