The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.