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Ironically perhaps, key elements in the Marxian criticism of differs little from a popular conservative complaint (though the same point is typically used for different purposes).

— George H. Smith Individualism: A Reader (2015)

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One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

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The physical capacity to coerce others can never generate a moral obligation to obey the dictates of [government] power.

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Taxes, then, are a necessary means for the maintenance of political power, so the laws, first and foremost, must enforce compulsory taxation.

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Taxes forcibly transfer wealth from producers to legislators, who justify their expropriations under cover of law.

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The Christian theologian will never find a contradiction between the propositions of faith and reason, because it is his job to interpret them out of existence.

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