There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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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.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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