Like Prince Von Bismarck In Diplomacy, I

In Proportion As You Give The State Power To Do Things For You, You Give It Power To Do Things To You.

The Positive Testimony Of History Is That The State Invariably Had Its Origin In Conquest And Confiscation. No Primitive State Known To History Originated In Any Other Manner.

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.

It Is Interesting To Observe That In The Year 1935 The Average Individual's Incurious Attitude Towards The Phenomenon Of The State Is Precisely What His Attitude Was Toward The Phenomenon Of The Church In The Year, Say, 1500. It Does Not Appear To Have Occurred To The Church-citizen Of That Day, Any More Than It Occurs To The State-citizen Of The Present, To Ask What Sort Of Institution It Was That Claimed His Allegiance.

The Idea That The State Originated To Serve Any Kind Of Social Purpose Is Completely Unhistorical. It Originated In Conquest And Confiscation - That Is To Say, In Crime. It Originated For The Purpose Of Maintaining The Division Of Society Into An Owning-and-exploiting Class And A Propertyless Dependent Class - That Is, For A Criminal Purpose.