To make a State appear necessary, any would-be State must first destroy the natural order and create a Hobbesian "anarchy" characterized by looting and vandalizing.
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.
The passion and will for freedom is always contradicted by the necessity of the state.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
The Anarchists believe in the State; only they insist that the greater part, if not all, of the necessity for its existence is the result of an artificial limitation of the freedom of civil society, and that the completion of industrial freedom may one day so harmonize individuals that it will no longer be necessary to provide a guarantee of political freedom.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
I ask whether in a case of necessity, for the defense of the kingdom, may I not impose this taxation and am I not the sole judge of the necessity.
called "ship money" to pay for the navy
