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States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anticapitalist.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

States are not moral agents.