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If You Do Not Want The State To Act Like A Criminal, You Must Disarm It As You Would A Criminal; You Must Keep It Weak. The State Will Always Be Criminal In Proportion To Its Strength; A Weak State Will Always Be As Criminal As It Can Be, Or Dare Be, But If It Is Kept Down To The Proper Limit Of Weakness - Which, By The Way, Is A Vast Deal Lower Limit Than People Are Led To Believe - Its Criminality May Be Safely Got On With.

The Superficial Distinctions Of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, Are The Concern Of Journalists And Publicists; The Serious Student Sees In Them Only One Root-idea Of A Complete Conversion Of Social Power Into State Power.

Another Strange Notion Pervading Whole Peoples Is That The State Has Money Of Its Own; And Nowhere Is This Absurdity More Firmly Fixed Than In America. The State Has No Money. It Produces Nothing. It Existence Is Purely Parasitic, Maintained By Taxation; That Is To Say, By Forced Levies On The Production Of Others. 'government Money,' Of Which One Hears So Much Nowadays, Does Not Exist; There Is No Such Thing.

For The Majority Of People Liberty Means Only The System And The Administrators They Are Used To.

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.