“Those who had entrusted their leaders knew it was for a purpose, and the purpose should be maintained.”

Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: That the navy is maintained at its present level for the purpose of protecting our sea-borne traffic and safeguarding our property in foreign lands, far more than for the purpose of keeping our shores from being invaded and our fellow citizens from being murdered, is an argument that runs like a crimson thread through the literature of armed preparedness.

Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 5.

&quot;The Criminality of the State&quot; in American Mercury (March 1939) http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ckank/FultonsLair/013/nock/criminality.html <br class="br">Context: The State&#x27;s criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation—that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class — that is, for a criminal purpose.<br>No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

Cited in: Don Soderquist (2005), The Wal-Mart Way, p. 7
Reengineering management, 1995

Letter to Alexander von Humboldt (6 December 1813) <br class="br"> Scanned letter at The Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&amp;fileName=mtj1page047.db&amp;recNum=74&amp;itemLink=/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjser1.html&amp;linkText=7 <br class="br"> Transcript at The Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj110127)) <br class="br">1810s

Gowachin Aritch to Jorj X. McKie; p. 68
The Bureau of Sabotage series, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 473.