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Government alone, in all man’s inventions, is capable of independent life. Government alone, like Mrs. Shelley’s terrifying creation of the monster born in Frankenstein’s mind, has the power and the ability to turn upon its creators and destroy them.

— Robert LeFevre Nature of Man and His Government (1959)

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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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