• 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 J. Nock: 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.
    "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 44), 1935.