Americans Have A Strange Notion That The

The State Claims And Exercises The Monopoly Of Crime... It Forbids Private Murder, But Itself Organizes Murder On A Colossal Scale. It Punishes Private Theft, But Itself Lays Unscrupulous Hands On Anything It Wants, Whether The Property Of Citizen Or Of Alien.

When A Beggar Asks Us For A Quarter, Our Instinct Is To Say That The State Has Already Confiscated Our Quarter For His Benefit, And He Should Go To The State About It.

The State Did Not Originate In Any Form Of Social Agreement, Or With Any Disinterested View Of Promoting Order And Justice. Far Otherwise. The State Originated In Conquest And Confiscation, As A Device For Maintaining The Stratification Of Society Permanently Into Two Classes-an Owning And Exploiting Class, Relatively Small, And A Propertyless Dependent Class. . . . No State Known To History Originated In Any Other Manner, Or For Any Other Purpose Than To Enable The Continuous Economic Exploitation Of One Class By Another.

Someone Asked Me Years Ago If It Were True That I Disliked Jews, And I Replied That It Was Certainly True, Not At All Because They Are Jews, But Because They Are Folks, And I Don’t Like Folks.

As A General Principle, I Should Put It That A Man's Country Is Where The Things He Loves Are Most Respected. Circumstances May Have Prevented His Ever Setting Foot There, But It Remains His Country.