When the government uses "divide and conquer," it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other. Thus, they don't affiliate. The consequence is that everyone distrusts his neighbor. But everyone trusts the government.


Quote in Good Government: Hope or Illusion? Fullerton: CA, Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), 1977 speech, published in 1978, p. 23. - Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

Robert LeFevre Quotes

When the government uses divide and conquer, it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other....

When the government uses divide and conquer, it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other....

When the government uses divide and conquer, it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other....

When the government uses divide and conquer, it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other....