For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the peo… — Elliot Richardson

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

Elliot RichardsonLawyer · American · 1920 – 1999

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