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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.'

— Robert LeFevre Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

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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.

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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.’

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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.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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