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[G]overnment should only concern itself with matters of justice (i.e. the protection of rights) while leaving more tangential matters to the voluntary decisions and actions of individuals.

— George H. Smith The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism (2013)

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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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