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Robert LeFevre on Government

1911–1986 United States

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Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.

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.

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)

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)

Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?' That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.'

Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert LeFevre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.