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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.’

— Robert LeFevre The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)

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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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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.

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