We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us. ' The government … - Murray Rothbard

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We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us. ' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.

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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation. ' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft. '

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The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

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