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Carroll Quigley Quotes: A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
         

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.


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