Money Quote by Albert J. Nock

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another;…

— Albert Jay Nock

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want…

— Michael Ignatieff

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

— Aristotle

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

— William Beveridge