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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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