“The criminal, who in aspiration is the absolute individual, is the enemy of society and its institutions; he is not the enemy of the State. The State is the enemy of the criminal only to the extent that the State happens to act as the protector of society. The enemy of the State is the rebel, and, although governments will attempt to brand the rebel as a criminal, which they sometimes are, the rebel as such is not at war with society and its institutions. Very often the rebel is their defender.”

— Francis X. Slade
“Rule as Sovereignty: The Universal and Homogeneous State”