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Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily
http://mises.org/daily/4689

The more he read about history, for example, the more he noticed that, as he later put it, “the State is the poorest instrument imaginable for improving human society”; it is “slow, extravagant, inefficient, wasteful, unadaptive, stupid, and at least by tendency corrupt,” so that “confidence in political institutions and political nostrums is ludicrously misplaced.”