Robert LeFevre Short Quotes

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Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

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Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.

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An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.

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Government may be intrinsically evil; clearly they operate on the basis of tax predation.

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The family unit is the incubator for human character; the state is the incubator for human dependency.

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What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.

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If you have a government of good laws and bad men, you will have a bad government. For bad men will not be bound by good laws.

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To say unlimited government is a redundancy and to say 'limited government' is a contradiction. All you have to say is 'government.'

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Very few men advocate government control over themselves. But they constantly believe that others must be controlled by some outside force.

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Formal government can be defined as: a group of men who sell retribution to the inhabitants of a limited geographic area at monopolistic prices.

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If men were basically good, we would not require government; if men were basically evil, we could not afford to grant any man the power of government.

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Does government protection protect? It doesn't do anything of the sort. It takes vengeance in your name after you've been hurt and calls it protection.

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Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?' That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.'

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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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Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.

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And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone.

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Politics may be defined as: the method adopted in governments for obtaining motivation toward a monopoly. In all political actions, a monopoly of control and method is sought.

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I carry no brief in favor of the criminal. That is why I carry no brief in defense of those in government. Setting a thief [the government] to catch a thief doubles the amount of loot stolen.

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