The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's” showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics-for the moral order-that their self-respect would not let them tolerate. John Carroll
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent. John Carroll
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. William Scranton
For a house, I take it, or a ship or anything of that sort must have its chief strength in its substructure; and so too in affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice. Demosthenes
We [ Christians] have no pressing inducement to take part in your public meetings; nor is there anything more entirely foreign to us than affairs of state. We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth-the world. Tertullian
Speaking generally, he holds dominion, to whom are entrusted by common consent affairs of state. Baruch Spinoza