I will have to quote Larken Rose - The Most Dangerous Superstition - but the entire book addresses this very issue.

"The average statist (one who believes in “government”), while lamenting all the ways in which “authority” has been used as a tool for evil, even in his own country, will still insist that it is possible for “government” to be a force for good, and still imagine that “authority” can and must provide the path to peace and justice."

Read that book -