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Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.
A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I (1999)
Cannibalism is actually a sort of dietetic socialism. Here is the ultimate sacrifice. A human life is taken for the purpose of maximizing the ‘public welfare.’
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
The family unit is the incubator for human character; the state is the incubator for human dependency.
It is strange that many believe they cannot control themselves, but they can control others.
A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I (1999)
Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.
Very few crooks perform with a police audience.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)
If you have a government of good laws and bad men, you will have a bad government. For bad men will not be bound by good laws.
Government may be intrinsically evil; clearly they operate on the basis of tax predation.
Nature of Man and His Government (1959)
Formal government can be defined as: a group of men who sell retribution to the inhabitants of a limited geographic area at monopolistic prices.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.
An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.
Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.
Politics may be defined as: the method adopted in governments for obtaining motivation toward a monopoly. In all political actions, a monopoly of control and method is sought.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
Very few men advocate government control over themselves. But they constantly believe that others must be controlled by some outside force.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
If men were basically good, we would not require government; if men were basically evil, we could not afford to grant any man the power of government.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
As a result of this failure of communist ideology to comprehend the nature of man, Stalin decided to alter the Russian constitution. No longer would economic rewards be distributed on the basis of 'need'; rather, the new concept was to be 'to each according to his work.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
Government doesn't cure problems. It aggravates them.
What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)
Does government protection protect? It doesn't do anything of the sort. It takes vengeance in your name after you've been hurt and calls it protection.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)