From The Origins of State and Government (.PDF):

It cannot be the case that
all wealth is attributable to
the state. Historically, the
existence of a state required
a surplus to sustain it in
the first place.
State formation represents
a transformation
from ‘roving bandits’ to
‘stationary bandits.’ The
state is, at its core, a predatory
institution.
When meditating on
what it means to live as
free people we should
never forget that the state
doesn’t grant to us our
identities or our rights.
Property rights precedes the marketplace and that precedes the state