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"From the fact that many libertarians believe that the state has no legitimacy, they arrive at the position that anything the state does is illegitimate. This is a logical confusion. Consider the murderer who happens on a scene of a rape while fleeing the law, saves the woman, and pounds the rapist. Is this good deed illegitimate because performed by a murderer?"

— Ilana Mercer

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2003

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"The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule."

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