"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Secession: The Instrument of Dividing Authority
"Now, as in Proudhon’s time, political authority remains the source of societal problems ranging from starvation and exploitation to war. The state’s coercive powers, the concrete instruments of authority in practice, hold resources and productive capacity out of reach, protecting the manufactured 'rights' of powerful elites."
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